A Dubious Legacy - Brossura

Wesley, Mary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0552994952 ISBN 13: 9780552994958

Casa editrice: Black Swan, 1993

Riassunto

On the threshold of their new life together, Margaret gave Henry a black eye and went straight to bed where she more or less remained for the rest of her life. Two young couples become regular, if uneasy, houseguests over the years, listening and speculating until finally, piecing together the rumours and the mystery, they find themselves tangled in the web of Henry’s life.

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Recensione:

"'Wesley's books are a delight...a beautifully crafted tale, very sexy, very funny, I just didn't want it to end'" (The Sunday Times)

"'Mary Wesley holds you by the hand and you follow wherever she takes you'" (Kate Kellaway Observer)

"'Mary Wesley does it again, only more so...She marches straight into her tale, intriguing from the beginning, keeping up a pace that rarely slackens'" (Literary Review)

"'Wesley breezes along with customary grace and nonchalance, sniping maliciously at her characters while giving them a more or less good time'" (Financial Times)

"'A sophisticated cocktail of sweetness and cynicism'" (Kate Saunders Cosmopolitan)

L'autore:

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. She also worked part-time in

the antiques trade. Mary Wesley lived in London, France, Italy, Germany and several places in the West Country. She used to comment that her 'chief claim to fame is arrested development, getting my first novel published at the age of seventy'. That first novel, Jumping the Queue, is published by Black Swan, as are her later novels, The Camomile Lawn, Second Fiddle, Harnessing Peacocks, The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, Not That Sort of Girl, A Sensible Life, A Dubious Legacy, An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture. With the help of Kim Sayer's evocative photographs Mary Wesley showed us her own personal West Country in her last book, Part of the Scenery. Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year's honour list.

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• Editore: Black Swan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0552994952
• ISBN 13: 9780552994958
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320