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Literature & Fiction

The Camomile Lawn

The Camomile Lawn

A vivid picture of wartime London and Cornwall through the eyes of five cousins.

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 auntâ€™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.
It is 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 â€” all of it evoked with warmth, clarity and stunning wit. And through it all, the cousins and their friends try to hold onto the part of themselves that laughed and played dangerous games on that camomile lawn.

Country	USA
Author	Mary Wesley
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Vintage
EAN	9780099499145
Edition	New Ed
Format	International Edition
ISBN	0099499142
Label	Vintage Books
Manufacturer	Vintage Books
MPN	9780099499145
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	336
PartNumber	9780099499145
PublicationDate	2006-07-04
Publisher	Vintage Books
ReleaseDate	2006-07-04
Studio	Vintage Books

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