Part Of The Scenery Mary Wesley

Name: Part Of The Scenery By Mary Wesley
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Part Of The Scenery by Mary Wesley

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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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Part Of The Scenery by Mary Wesley

This book will follow Mary in words and pictures through her life in the West Country from her early visits to Polzeth in Cornwall in 1914 to the present day living and working in Totnes. Drawing on her own life, and also remembering how her words were inspired by many of the places she visited or made her home, it will be part-memoir, part-nostalgia of the West Country that has meant so much to her over the years. Most of the photography is original and will be beautiful and intriguing in its own right without losing its relevence to Mary or her books.

Part Of The Scenery Reviews

'Enchanting' Auberon Waugh on Mary Wesley. 'Polished' Sunday Times on Mary Wesley. 'Irrepressible' Marie Claire on Mary Wesley. 'Glorious' Evening Standard on Mary Wesley.

About Mary Wesley

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.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001253834

ISBN 13

9780593047170

ISBN 10

0593047176

Title

Part Of The Scenery by Mary Wesley

Author

Mary Wesley

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Year published

20011001

Number of pages

189

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us