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Née en 1912 près de Windsor, Mary Wesley, cosmopolite et bohème, a vécu en France, en Italie et en Allemagne. C'est à l'âge de soixante-dix ans qu'elle publie son premier roman, La Resquilleuse (EHO, 2011), entamant une carrière aussi féconde que tardive. Elle est décédée en 2002. Les Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson ont également publié Rose, sainte nitouche (2009), Les Raisons du cœur (2010), La Pelouse de camomille(2013) et Sucré, salé, poivré (2015).
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Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: 'after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again. We lived our ups and downs but life was never boring'. Eric Siepmann was her second husband and their correspondence...

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Télécharger le livre :  Part Of The Furniture
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Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the air raid sirens begin to wail out across London. She is rescued from this nightmare by a gaunt stranger called Evelyn, frail and older than...

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Parution : 2012-04-24

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Télécharger le livre :  A Sensible Life
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Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander the streets of a small French town whilst her parents prepare to depart for life in colonial India. There she befriends the locals, acquires an extensive...

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Parution : 2012-03-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Second Fiddle
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Laura Thornby is independent, individual and perfectly in control of her life. Her affairs are brief but delightful, her career fulfilling and she copes with her two rather peculiar relatives and the gossip about her parentage with wryness and humour.But then she meets...

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Télécharger le livre :  An Imaginative Experience
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A train screeches to a halt in the middle of the English countryside and, observed by her fascinated fellow travellers, a woman climbs down and rushes to the aid of a sheep, stranded on its back and unable to rise. Sylvester Weekes watches with interest and noticing, as...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Camomile Lawn
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Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of their youth.Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civil War and world-weary at only nineteen. Calypso is gorgeous, utterly selfish and...

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Parution : 2012-03-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Jumping The Queue
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Matilda Poliport, recently widowed and largely estranged from her four adult children, has decided to End It All. She has cleaned her cottage, given away her beloved pet goose and burnt any incriminating letters. Now all that remains for her to do is eat her picnic,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Not That Sort Of Girl
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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...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Dubious Legacy
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Henry Tillotson, a generous, genial man who inherited his father's philanthropic attitude along with his beautiful house, rescues Margaret from a disastrous marriage in Egypt and brings her home to the West Country as his new wife. On the threshold she gives him a black...

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Télécharger le livre :  Harnessing Peacocks
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Hebe sits in the darkness and listens to her hypocritical grandparents and her older siblings discuss how her unexpected pregnancy must be terminated to avoid the shame it will bring. Determined to raise her child, she flees into the night with only her mother's...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew
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Poppy Carew has just been dumped by her unscrupulous boyfriend, Edmund, when her beloved and eccentric father dies, leavingPoppy one last request - that she ensure he is buried in style by a 'fun' undertaker - and one large fortune.Carrying out his wishes,Poppy finds...

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