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Buy the camomile lawn by mary wesley from waterstones today. Set against the backdrop of world war ii, the story follows an uppercrust english family, actually an odd assortment of cousins, aunts and uncles, asthey go about their business at a summer home in cornwall, seemingly unaffected by the war. It is the summer of 1939, the last the cousins will share together as the world is on the edge of war. As the drama concludes in 1984, a final gathering on the camomile lawn reveals longkept secrets. When the family is reunited for a funeral nearly fifty years later, it brings home to them how much the war acted as a catalyst for their emotional liberation. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. 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.
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