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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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Provides equal does of sex and repression in war-torn Britain with panache and pace ― The Times

A very good book indeed...rich in detail, careful and subtle in observation, mature in judgement -- Susan Hill

Extraordinarily accomplished and fast-moving ― Financial Times

It's hard to overpraise Mary Wesley's novel...so tingling and spry with life that put a mirror to the book and I'll almost swear it will mist over with the breath of the five young cousins ― The Times

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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, was followed by a subsequent nine bestsellers: 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. Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year's honour list and died in 2002.

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Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Vintage (1. Juni 2006)
Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
Taschenbuch ‏ : ‎ 352 Seiten
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099499142
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099499145
Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.21 x 19.74 cm

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Die Wechsel in Zeit und Lokalität sind schon spannend, aber man muss ziemlich wach sein, um alles mitzubekommen. Die Deutschen Ausdrücke sind sehr ungenau und zu wenig recherchiert, die Geschichte eher vage und nahe am Vulgären. Es besteht ein gewisser Reiz, den Charakteren auf die Schliche zu kommen, doch diese Chance bekommt man nie. Alles bleibt oberflächlich, auch der Schmerz. Und wegen zu wenigen historischen Details erfüllt das Buch auch nicht den Anspruch des Zeitdokuments. Es entsteht ein Gefühl der Leere und man ist froh, es hinter sich zu haben. Einfach nicht befriedigend.

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An Engaging and Entertaining Read

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Mary Wesley's entertaining novel begins in Cornwall in the summer of 1939 where, in a large old house with a camomile lawn set above the sea, Helena Cuthbertson and her second husband, Richard, a WWI veteran complete with wooden leg, live with Richard's orphaned niece, ten-year-old Sophy. All three are awaiting the arrival of Richard's other nieces and nephews: Oliver, Calypso, Polly and Walter. Recently back from the Spanish Civil War, Oliver, a good-looking and passionate young man, is in love with his cousin, the beautiful, pleasure-seeking Calypso, but Calypso wants to find a rich husband and is not going to waste herself on the hot-headed Oliver; Polly, an attractive, amiable young woman, sister of the gentle, good-natured Walter, is looking forward to spending time with the local rector's twin sons, but can't decide which twin she cares for most; and Sophy is just waiting to see if she is now considered old enough to join the yearly 'Terror Run' - a timed moonlit run made along the narrow cliff path by the cousins and the twins. Fortunately for Sophy, she is allowed to join in this year, which is just as well, because for the cliff runners this is the last carefree summer before war breaks out. During this time we also meet Max and Monika Erstweiler, Austrian Jews who are staying at the vicarage, and whose son, Pauli, is incarcerated in a concentration camp.

A couple of months after the summertime 'Terror Run', we find the cousins back in London - Oliver, Walter and the twins enlist; Polly does war work and finds sexual satisfaction in a rather surprising way; the breathtakingly beautiful Calypso finds herself a rich, older husband, Hector, to whom, she tells everyone, including Hector, she only became married because he is rich; she also professes to not knowing what love is - but she is later forced to reconsider. Then Aunt Helena surprisingly embarks on a love affair, and the stolid Uncle Richard, even more surprisingly follows suit; Sophy, having been sent to boarding school, is missing her cousins, her home and the camomile lawn, and feeling dreadfully unhappy at school and worrying about Oliver, with whom she has fallen in love, she decides to run away; Max, a talented violinist and ardent admirer of the female sex, becomes more well-known, and even more free with his sexual favours as the war progresses; and the anguished but resourceful Monika, worrying dreadfully about the fate of her son, tries bravely to make the best of what life has to offer her.

'The Camomile Lawn' is Mary Wesley's second major novel, but there is no trace of the difficult second book syndrome with this entertaining story - maybe this is, in no small part, due to the fact that although this book is the second in a sequence of novels which were published when the author was in her seventies, Mary Wesley had actually been writing for decades. As in her other novels, this is a beautifully written story suffused with dark humour and where underneath the surface lies a whole tangle of emotions. It is true, that with the number of protagonists in the story, we cannot become as acquainted with each character as I would have liked and, like Kate Hopkins writing here, I would have appreciated knowing more about the war from Monika's perspective and would also liked to have learnt more about Polly's war work. In consequence, although I very much enjoyed and admired this novel, I didn't become quite as caught up in it as I did with the author's first novel: Jumping The Queue , where the story is tighter and more focused on its main character. That said, I found 'The Camomile Lawn', parts of which are drawn from the author's own life, a very entertaining, witty and, at times, a rather poignant read - and, as a portrayal of wartime London and of how people react when thrown into the intensity of war, it's also a particularly good one. Recommended.

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P.S. I decided to opt for the Kindle Whispersync version of this book, which meant that I could download both the Kindle version and the audio download version The Camomile Lawn - particularly well-narrated by Carole Boyd - for the price of a new paperback. It also meant that I could switch between reading on my Kindle and listening on my iPhone or iPad without ever losing my place - great for when you have to put the printed version down to get on with some work but can carry on listening to the story.

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cant say much about the book, but if it is anything like the others that i have read it will be a very good read.

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an immersive read

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Multiple timelines and narrators and not a misstep. A truly wonderful craftwork of two worlds. Camomile and violets with different viewpoints subdued by love.

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It’s many years since I first read ‘The Camomile Lawn’ by Mary Wesley. I remember liking it, and that one of the characters is called Calypso, but nothing else. So it was with delight that I read the wartime story of Calypso and her four cousins – Oliver, Polly, Walter and Sophy. It renewed my intention to re-read all Wesley’s novels.
The story is enrichened by the mode of telling. It starts in Cornwall in the summer of 1939 as the cousins of assorted ages gather for what will be the last time. There is a poignancy hanging in the air as the run their ritual race, The Terror Run, along the clifftop path, joined by their neighbours, the Floyer twins.
The cousins are the children of the three Cuthbertson siblings – we see the parents only fleetingly, if not at all – but they are gathered at their Uncle Richard’s house and picnic on the camomile lawn. What follows are the piecemeal stories of individuals and how they overlap with each other as the war progresses. Overlaid, are short passages from the Eighties as they travel independently to Cornwall for a funeral. Drawn into the cousins’ stories are their neighbours, in Cornwall and London, wartime acquaintances, lovers, and refugees Max and Monika. Amidst the bombings, the rationing and the worries about loved ones fighting, Wesley tells a story of a family both united and separated, as individuals strike out on their own, liberated by wartime urgencies. There are affairs, unexpected babies, hints of underage sex, all without accusations of blame or betrayal. Each makes assumptions about the others, assumptions the reader may know are misplaced given we are privileged to see into the minds of each cousin, and sometimes assumptions which are proven right or wrong only at the very end of the novel.
Paths cross, diverge and cross again. Not everyone is nice, not everyone is honest. They are people getting through the war, trying to keep things together; some turn to drink and partying, one keeps guinea pigs, most feel emboldened by the openings presented to them by war. And all the time, fear lurks in the pit of their stomachs. And through it all, the house in Cornwall and memories of that last party on the camomile lawn, remind us of pre-war normality. At a time when ‘normal’ ceases to exist.
Very different from other wartime novels. Now a classic.

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Irresistible charm

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Mary Wesley captures the released freedoms created by World War Two in the spirited characters of Helena (older generation), Calypso and Polly (younger generation) and their husbands, lovers, and brothers through the tumultuous and world-upside-down rigours of wartime. Beginning with a vague mystery in the peaceful pre-war summer in Cornwall, the camomile lawn of the family retreat becomes a symbol of permanence and reassurance when everything else is disintegrating. The youngest family member, Sophy, central to the plot, is sent away to school but runs away to join Polly in London.

Mary Wesley bases much of her story on personal experience, particularly in her love of Cornwall where she spent her own childhood summers, and not a few of her characters are based on people she knew. Her lively narrative, filled with good, succinct dialogue, through which the story is mainly told, must have been fed with her own memories, and is immediate, realistic, and believable. The reader is swept into the affairs of Helena, Calypso, and Polly with an enthusiasm and, given that Mary Welsey must have been quite elderly by the time she wrote this novel, but her writing is sharp, witty, and convincing. She begins the novel with the funeral of one of the main characters, and tells the story in a series of long flashbacks interspersed with returns to the funeral, the people of the novel now old and looking back. This works well, and keeps the reader informed and aware.

I enjoyed this novel very much when I first read it years ago and, returning to it recently (2013), I enjoyed it just as much. I then watched the TV series which was beautifully done, accurately adapting the novel, getting the characters right, and using as much of Wesley's original dialogue as possible. I recommend both.

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