Not That Sort of Girl (King Penguin)

by Mary Wesley (Author)

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  Paperback
  1989

  $16.69

  The moving story of a woman who finds the perfect balance between a passionate love and a steadfast marriageNed was tall, kind, and wealthy, the perfect man to marry - according to Rose's father. So Rose gave Ned her promise never to leave him, and she never didNearly fifty years later, the newly widowed Rose, thought by all to be not the sort of girl to stray from her perfect marriage, looks back on a life during which she kept faith with Ned - and with her lover, Mylo. This is her story of constancy, passion, humor, and delight - all the verities and ambiguities of love.

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  Paperback
  1988

  $3.77

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $12.46

  When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give her aristocratic husband her word: keeping it, however, proves harder. For even on the day when she has promised to forsake all others, Rose's heart is with the true love of her life, Mylo, the penniless but passionate Frenchman who, within five minutes of their meeting declared his love and asked her to marry him. Whilst Rose remains true to her promise never to leave Ned, not even the war, social conventions, nor the prying of her overly inquisitive and cheerfully immoral neighbours, can stop her and Mylo from meeting and loving one another.