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The Camomile Lawn

Af: Mary Wesley Engelsk Paperback

The Camomile Lawn

Af: Mary Wesley Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9780099499145
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0099499142
Kategori: Central London
Udg. Dato: 1 jun 2006
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 1 jun 2006
Forfatter(e): Mary Wesley
Forfatter(e) Mary Wesley

Kategori Central London

ISBN-13 9780099499145

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 352

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 129mm

Højde 198mm

Udg. Dato 1 jun 2006

Oplagsdato 1 jun 2006

Forlag Vintage Publishing

Kategori sammenhænge