Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley

Author(s): Marnham, Patrick,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 03/05/2007,
Pagination: 336 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Vintage,
Published By: Vintage Publishing,
Book Classification: English
Dimensions: 199 x 131 x 21mm
Weight: 244g
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780099498179

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Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, including the legendary The Camomile Lawn, in a style best described as arsenic without the old lace. Many of her stories were inspired by her experiences during the Blitz, and by her marriages: the first to an aristocrat, a brief and conventional affair, and the second to a penniless writer she adored.

A remarkable book about a remarkable woman, Patrick Marnham's brilliantly researched and wonderfully impartial book disentangles truth from rumour, highlighting the links between Wesley's real life and her fiction.