The Camomile Lawn
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Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down
to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939,
five cousins have gathered at their aunt''s house for their annual
ritual of a holiday. For most of them it is the last summer of
their youth, with the heady exhilarations and freedoms of lost
innocence, as well as the fears of the coming war.The Camomile Lawn
moves from Cornwall to London and back again, over the years,
telling the stories of the cousins, their family and their friends,
united by shared losses and lovers, by family ties and the absurd
conditions imposed by war as their paths cross and recross over the
years. Mary Wesley presents an extraordinarily vivid and lively
picture of wartime London: the rationing, imaginatively
circumvented; the fallen houses; the parties, the new-found
comforts of sex, the desperate humour of survival - all of it
evoked with warmth, clarity and stunning wit. And through it all,
the cousins and their friends try to hold on to the part of
themselves that laughed and played dangerous games on that camomile
lawn.
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Mary Wesley
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Vintage Publishing
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