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Mary Wesley

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Born: June 23 1912

Died: 2929 12 20022002

Mary Wesley, CBE was an English novelist. She reportedly worked in MI5 during World War II. During her career, she became one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including 10 best-sellers in the last 20 years of her life.

She wrote three children's books, Speaking Terms and The Sixth Seal and Haphazard House , before publishing adult fiction. Since her first adult novel was published only in 1983, when she was 71, she may be regarded as a late bloomer. The publication of Jumping the Queue in 1983 was the beginning of an intensely creative period of Wesley's life. From 1982 to 1991, she wrote and delivered seven novels. While she aged from 70 to 79 she still showed the focus and drive of a young person.
Her best known book, The Camomile Lawn, set on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, was turned into a television series, and is an account of the intertwining lives of three families in rural England during World War II. After The Camomile Lawn came Harnessing Peacocks , The Vacillations of Poppy Carew , Not That Sort of Girl , Second Fiddle , A Sensible Life , A Dubious Legacy , An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture . A book about the West Country with photographer Kim Sayer, Part of the Scenery, was published in 2001. Asked why she had stopped writing fiction at the age of 84, she replied: "If you haven't got anything to say, don't say it.

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Mary Wesley

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Books from Mary Wesley

The Camomile Lawn

Harnessing Peacocks

Not That Sort of Girl

The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew

Jumping the Queue

An Imaginative Experience

A Sensible Life

Mary Wesley Omnibus: Jumping the Queue, Camomile Lawn, Harnessing Peacocks

A Dubious Legacy: 1400 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library)

A Dubious Legacy

The Sixth Seal

Part of the Scenery: A Celebration of Life in the West Country

A Sensible Life

Speaking Terms

Part Of The Furniture

Second Fiddle

The Camomile Lawn

Una vita sensata

El césped de manzanilla

Darling Pol: Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967