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  • The Collected Novels Volume Two

    The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, Not That Sort of Girl, and Second Fiddle

    by Mary Wesley ...
    Three touching contemporary British novels of love, romance, and humor from the "high-spirited and inventive" international bestselling author ( The Daily Telegraph).The Vacillations of Poppy Carew: Poppy embarks on an exhilarating journey of self-discovery after inheriting her father's fortune. Traveling from England to Africa and back again, she must choose her future from a band of eccentric ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Camomile Lawn

    by Mary Wesley ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Camomile Lawn

    A Novel

    by Mary Wesley ...
    International Bestseller: A novel of youthful love and loss and "a powerful evocation of the war years" in England ( The Guardian).On a hot August evening in 1939, cousins Oliver, Calypso, Polly, Walter, and Sophy spent one last night together, celebrating the end of summer, at the home of their aunt and uncle. Now, forty years later, as the motley cast of characters drive to the funeral of one ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Second Fiddle

    A Novel

    by Mary Wesley ...
    Britain's beloved bestselling author delivers "a droll comedy of manners" in a story of desire and dalliances in a provincial English town ( Los Angeles Times).Laura Thornby is the kind of woman every man wants—despite their better judgment. Urbane, seductively aloof, and charmingly intrusive, she is the older woman every younger man dreams of bedding, if not wedding. When Claud Bannister meets ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Novels Volume One

    Jumping the Queue, The Camomile Lawn, and Harnessing Peacocks

    by Mary Wesley ...
    Three touching contemporary British novels of love, loss, and humor from the international bestselling "virtuoso" ( The Times, London).Jumping the Queue: This masterpiece of wit, humor, and psychological suspense tells the story of a middle-aged widow who has had it with life. She puts her papers in order, gives away her pet goose, packs a picnic lunch, and heads to the beach to drown herself—only ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

    A Novel

    by Mary Wesley ...
    A young woman is forced to decide for herself just who she wants to be—and who she wants, period—in this " high-spirited and inventive " witty romance ( The Daily Telegraph).Poppy Carew is at a crossroads. Her longtime boyfriend, Edmund Platt, has just left her. Her father has just passed away, leaving her a substantial sum of money he made betting on the ponies. And the undertaker for the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Harnessing Peacocks

    A Novel

    by Mary Wesley ...
    A young single mother funds her son's education in a most unusual way in this "delightfully lighthearted" novel from a beloved bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews).Ever since a pregnant and unmarried Hebe was forced to leave her grandparents' home in disgrace, she has put the needs of her son, Silas, first. Paying his tuition to an elite prep school comes before everything, and she will do whatever ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Part Of The Furniture

    by Mary Wesley ...
    Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the air raid sirens begin to wail out across London. She is rescued from this nightmare by a gaunt stranger called Evelyn, frail and older than his years, who offers her the protection of his house and his family before dying suddenly in the night.Determined to avoid being ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Jumping the Queue

    A Novel

    by Mary Wesley ...
    A "quirky, sad, and very funny" novel about suicide, matricide, and an unlikely love, from one of England's best-loved authors ( The Guardian).Determined to end it all after the death of her husband, Matilda Poliport's carefully laid plans to kill herself are derailed when she comes to the rescue of another potential bridge jumper—a notorious young man on the run for having murdered his mother ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sensible Life

    A Novel

    by Mary Wesley ...
    This "engaging and memorable novel," set in post-WWI England and France, takes a wise, witty look at love, growing up, and class differences ( Publishers Weekly).For the British families who vacation there, the shore town of Dinard, France, is a getaway from the ills of modern life. But when Flora Trevelyan visits with her self-absorbed parents in 1926, it's not an escape she finds—instead, it's a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew

    by Mary Wesley ...
    Poppy Carew has just been dumped by her unscrupulous boyfriend, Edmund, when her beloved and eccentric father dies, leaving Poppy one last request - that she ensure he is buried in style by a 'fun' undertaker - and one large fortune.Carrying out his wishes, Poppy finds not only a fun funeral parlour, and an equally fun wake peopled with very generous old ladies who all seem to know her father very ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Dubious Legacy

    A Novel

    by Mary Wesley ...
    A "darkly comic, wise and irresistible" novel of friendship, romance, and the chaos in between, from one of Britain's bestselling authors ( Publishers Weekly).When Henry Tillotson comes back from the war with a mysterious new bride from Egypt, everyone is intrigued. But intrigue turns to outright confusion when his new wife retreats to her room and refuses to leave her bed, much less the house, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus