Mary Wesley Knihy

Příběh o mladých lidech ve válkou rozvrácené Británii Píše se srpen 1939 a pět mladých bratranců a sestřenic se sjíždí do Cornwallu, aby v domě své tety strávili letní prázdniny a jako každý rok uběhli svůj rituální ,běh hrůzy‘. Všem je devatenáct. Oliver, který se právě vrátil ze Španělska, kde bojoval v občanské válce, je beznadějně zamilovaný do krásné, ale vypočítavé Calypso. Dále tu jsou sourozenci Polly a Walter, pak David a Paul, pastorova dvojčata, co se velmi přátelí s Polly. Nakonec tu máme desetiletou Sofii, sirotka od narození, nemilovanou ani tetou, ani strýcem. Smráká se, záhy bude vyhlášena mobilizace a životy všech mladých lidí projdou nenávratnou změnou. Heřmánkový palouk popisuje život těchto chlapců a dívek jak ve válce, tak v míru, v průběhu dospělosti i stáří. Jsou totiž navěky propojeni ztrátami a láskou, svazky rodinnými i přátelskými. Jak dospívají, bojují nejenom o přežití, ale i o to, aby zůstali věrni sami sobě a těm, které milují. „Není možné dostatečně vychválit prózu Mary Wesleyové… Tak svěží a jiskřící životem, že kdyby se přiložilo ke knize zrcadlo, přísahal bych, že bude zamlženo dechem pěti mladých bratranců a sestřenic.“ The Times

After a mysterious catastrophe befalls much of the earth, Muriel, her son Paul, and his friend Henry must learn how to survive in this new, barren, and disturbingly empty world. By the author of A Dubious Legacy.

She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language. Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926--leading their privileged lives of secure routine pleasures--Flora was a ten-year-old misfit. Ignored by her self-absorbed parents, unloved, and pitied by the pleasant, stylish people in Brittany that summer, Flora was--peripherally--included in their gracious circles. And there, meeting kindly civilised people for the first time, she fell in love--with Cosmo--with Hubert--with Feix. It took forty years for the love affairs to be explored, consummated and finally resolved. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Early in 1941, having just seen off at Euston Station the two young men whom she has loved for the best part of her seventeen years, Juno Marlowe is hurrying down a London street with her ill-fitting shoes in her hands.  Airplanes thunder overhead; a battery of guns opens up.  When a stick of bombs falls she cowers, then takes to her heels in flight.  She is rescued from this nightmare by a gaunt stranger, frail and older than his years, and, guiding her up his front stairs, he offers her the protection of his house.Given this respite from the bleakness of having no home and no family to turn to, Juno first encounters tragedy, then a series of events which take her to a house in the West Country and the blossoming of an English spring into which war only occasionally intrudes.  Here she may find peace; here she will no longer be part of the furniture.  Part of the Furniture completes the triptych of wartime novels begun with The Camomile Lawn and A Sensible Life.

After her husband's funeral, Rose looks back on a life of dual constancy, passion, humour and the ambiguities of love - and chooses her future. A witty and charming love story among the British middle classes with surprising twists.

A traveller on a train smells the burn of brakes on the rails as the train stops suddenly in the countryside. Looking out the window, he sees a white-faced woman leap from the train in aid of a stranded sheep. The image lodges in his mind, a familiar despair he knows.

Living happily alone in a seaside town in Cornwall, lovely Hebe supports her son at an expensive boarding school by cooking and discreetly making love for profit, until the unexpected happens

When James and Matthew spent the weekend with Henry Tillotson in 1954, they took an instant liking to the country house that Henry had inherited from his father. His wife was a bit odd though - she never seemed to get out of bed. Gossip suggested that Henry had inherited her as well.

Matilda Poliport, recently widowed, has decided to end it all. It All. But her meticulously planned bid for graceful oblivion is foiled, and when she later foils the suicide attempt of another lost soul - Hugh Warner, on the run from the police - life begins again for both.

Beautiful, independent and brazenly manipulative, 40-ish Laura Thornby plays muse to 23-year-old aspiring novelist Claud Bannister in "Wesley's mordantly humorous take on upper-middle-class British life,"