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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 Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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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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Title	:	The Camomile Lawn
Author	:	Mary Wesley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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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I discovered this book while researching camomile, the herb. It seemed to be completely in my wheelhouse of 'lost innocence Anglophilia' somewhere between Brideshead Revisited , Atonement and Testament of Youth in following a group of young people before and through war and seeing how it affects them, and in contrasting the golden, privileged innocence of the pre-war period with the disillusionment of worldly adulthood.I loved it! This isn't the first thing I've read to assert that people

I first came across The Camomile Lawn in the early 90s when it was a must-watch television series. From an author whose literary career had only started when she was in her seventies, it was rather racy and had a cast of well known celebrities. I was intrigued to find out how it came across as a book when I'd already seen it on television.In fact, I think the enjoyment of the book was enhanced by having a picture of the characters in my mind as the story enfolded.The camomile lawn was just a

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

The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley is a provocative novel that tells the story of five cousins during their annual holiday in a house by the sea. It is the summer of 1939, the last the cousins will share together as the world is on the edge of war. Each of the male couins will be called to duty, hence war and bombings carve their way into the stories. We first meet Aunt Helena and Uncle Richard before all the cousins arrive on the train from London, except Sophy (my favorite character). Sophy

For some time now I do carework for the elderly in the UK. People in their late 80's or even 90's, whose young years play out on the pages of this book. Often they relate to me their war-time experiences, in fact it seems, that - very understandibly - those years left the deepest marks on their lives. It struck me as strange, or weird even, that some of them spoke with quite some relish about the war years (just like Polly does in the novel). Reading this book (haven't finished yet) helps me to

I received this book as a digital ARC from the publisher through Net Galley in return for an honest review.I requested this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review. Thanks to Open Road Media to allow me to read the eBook version of this book. In the beginning of this book, five cousins - Calypso, Walter, Polly, Oliver, Sophy and the twins - are spending their holiday in their aunt house in a town in Cornwall. Their favorite place during this last summer holiday before the beginning