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Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Hebe is living happily alone with her son in Cornwall. She has two chief talents in life - cooking and making love - and these she has exercised with dignity, in privacy and for profit. It is when separate strands of the web of Hebe's life become entangled that the even tenor of her days is threatened, and her life is changed.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2006
Description
For the whole of Rose's respectable married life she had kept faith with two men. To Ned she was a perfect wife, mother of his son and elegant hostess. To Mylo, she was an impetuous and unconventional mistress, answering his calls through 50 years of duplicity. When Ned dies, Rose chooses her new future.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Laura Thornby mananges her life with exquisite control. Her affairs are brief, her career fulfilling and she copes with her elderly relatives with wryness and humour. But when she meets struggling writer Claude Bannister, she is swept away by a desire to interfere, manipulate and experiment with him.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Flora was a ten-year-old misfit. Ignored by her parents, and pitied by the pleasant, stylish people in Brittany, Flora was included in their gracious circles. And there, she fell in love with Cosmo, with Hubert, with Felix. But it takes 40 years for the love affairs to be explored, consummated, and finally resolved.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Wesley published her first novel when she was 70 - and went on to write nine more bestsellers before her death, age 89, in 2002. At the outbreak of WWII, she was 'roped into intelligence', where she worked on breaking codes. This biography deals with her experiences in MI5 and her many wartime love affairs.
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Wesley published her first novel when she was 70 - and went on to write nine more bestsellers before her death, age 89, in 2002. At the outbreak of WWII, she was 'roped into intelligence', where she worked on breaking codes. This biography deals with her experiences in MI5 and her many wartime love affairs.