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Original Title:	The Camomile Lawn
ISBN:	0099499142 (ISBN13: 9780099499145)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Oliver, Calypso, Polly, Walter, Aunt Helena, Uncle Richard Cuthbertso
Setting:	Cornwall, England(United Kingdom) London, England(United Kingdom)

The Camomile Lawn

Mary Wesley

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 3072 Users | 233 Reviews

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Title	:	The Camomile Lawn
Author	:	Mary Wesley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2006 by Vintage (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. World War II. European Literature. British Literature

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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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Sub-The Forsyte Saga frippery. This is not a compliment, it doesn't have the depth of characters or development of plot of Galsworthy's epic novel. Sub-Night and Day frippery. This is a compliment, it doesn't have the awful pretension and snobbery that Virginia Woolf could never avoid in her life or her work. So the book is essentially a quite well written saga of some not terribly interesting people who have a lot of sex and a lot of money just like in the two aforementioned novels. The plot is

I'd heard good things about this book and duly sought it out like a sort of bibliophilic blood hound. When I say I'd heard good things I didn't actually know anything about it; the title and the inclusion of the word Camomile immediately planted seeds of ideas including tameness, anodine blandness and a sort of natural flavour which isn't necessarily to everyone's taste. Bam! Wrong!This book is World War II with sexy edges and a sexual liberation that people rightly or wrongly do not ever

This is my kind of book: a family story set in England during World War II. Richard and Helena are a childless, middle-aged couple who entertain their nieces and nephews at their home in Cornwall, with its memorable camomile lawn, every summer. Beautiful Calypso, Polly, Walter, Oliver and precocious 10-year old Sophy are first seen in the summer of 1939. Even though Helena and Richard refuse to face the truth, the cousins know that war is coming. And how that war affects each member of the

One of my favorites. I loved it so much I named two of my children after characters in this book.

I saw the TV adaptation of this years ago and finally got round to reading the book. Strangely, I was disappointed. There's no discernible plot and some of the characters, particularly Aunt Helena are hard to like. The book follows a group of cousins and their families through the war years from their last summer together in Cornwall in August 1939. There are also flash-forwards to the funeral of one of the characters in the 1980's, where various story strands get resolved, sort of. The

I'm not sure what the point of this book really was...the story of an extended family set in WWII London and Cornwall. The book jumps back and forth between the war experiences and the future when most of the characters are heading to a funeral and reminiscing about those times. These people need to expand their social circle because they all just sleep with each other throughout the book. Cousins with cousins, aunts & uncles with nephews & nieces, a few neighbors get into the mix and

My appreciation of The Camomile Lawn was fed by three sources; one being the knowledge that this novel was written when Wesley was 72 and it was only her second novel for adults. The second was the novel's authentic immediacy; Wesley does not bother with many descriptive passages and she very quickly sheds the constraints of who said what. Thirdly, in 1984 at 72, Wesley has an amazingly sprite open-mindedness; an astonishingly frank outlook about sex. You might easily get the idea she may be