Camomile Lawn

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 parttime in the 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 ltigtJumping the Queueltigt was followed by a subsequent nine bestsellers