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Part of the Scenery

Part of the Scenery

by Mary Wesley (Author)

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    Hardcover 2001

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Synopsis

Mary Wesley, through images and text, looks back over her life in England's wild and mysterious south-west peninsula. The book captures her memories from her early visits to Polzeath in Cornwall in 1914 to the present day living and working in Totnes.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 189
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Bantam Press
Published: 01 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 0593047176
ISBN 13: 9780593047170
Book Overview: A delightful, illustrated portrait of Mary Wesley's life in the West Country.

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Author Bio
Mary Wesley was born near Windsor in 1912. Her education took her to the London School of Economics and during the War she worked in the War Office. She also worked part-time in he antiques trade. Mary Wesley lived in London, France, Italy, Germany and several places in the West Country. She used to comment that her 'chief claim to fame is arrested development, getting my first novel published at the age of seventy'. That first novel, Jumping the Queue, is published by Black Swan, as are her later novels, The Camomile Lawn, Second Fiddle, Harnessing Peacocks, The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, Not That Sort of Girl, A Sensible Life, A Dubious Legacy, An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture. With the help of Kim Sayer's evocative photographs Mary Wesley showed us her own personal West Country in her last book, Part of the Scenery. Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year's honour list.