Harnessing Peacocks
$45.49
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2007
Summary
A single mother’s scandalous past returns to complicate the present in this deftly-plotted comedy by the beloved Mary Wesley.
Hebe sits in the darkness and listens to her hypocritical grandparents and her older siblings discuss how her unexpected pregnancy must be terminated to avoid the shame it will bring. Determined to raise her child, she flees into the night with only her mother’s jewellery to support her.
Twelve years later she is living happily alone in Cornwall, whilst…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099501688 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099501686 |
| Author: | Mary Wesley |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2007 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
“Delightful, intelligent entertainment.” Daily Telegraph “Warm, wise, witty, sexy.” Boston Globe
Delightful, intelligent entertainment * Sunday Telegraph *
Tremendously lively, very funny, touching, spirited * Susan Hill *
Hugely enjoyable – Nicholas Shakespeare * The Times *
Warm, wise, witty, sexy * Boston Globe *
About The Author
Mary Wesley
Mary Wesley was born near Windsor in 1912. Her education took her to the London School of Economics and during the War she worked in the War Office. Although she initially fulfilled her parents’ expectations in marrying an aristocrat she then scandalised them when she divorced him in 1945 and moved in with the great love of her life, Eric Siepmann. The couple married in 1952, once his wife had finally been persuaded to divorce him. She used to comment that her ‘chief claim to fame is arrested development, getting my first novel Jumping the Queue published at the age of seventy’. She went on to write a further nine novels, three of which were adapted for television, including the best-selling The Camomile Lawn. Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year’s honour list and died in 2002.
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