The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew
  • Published: 2 April 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099501671
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $45.00

The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew

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A lively and entertaining romp through England and Africa.

Poppy Carew has just been dumped by her unscrupulous boyfriend, Edmund, when her beloved and eccentric father dies, leaving Poppy 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 not only a fun funeral parlour, and an equally fun wake peopled with very generous old ladies who all seem to know her father very well, but also several eligible young men, all of whom are keen to get to know the new heiress. And when Edmund remembers the charms that he quickly forgot in the arms of his new lover, Venetia, there are suddenly too many choices for Poppy Carew...
  • Published: 2 April 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099501671
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

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 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, Jumping the Queue, was followed by a subsequent nine bestsellers: 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. Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year's honour list and died in 2002.

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A Dubious Legacy
Part Of The Furniture
Second Fiddle
An Imaginative Experience
A Sensible Life
Harnessing Peacocks
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Praise for The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew

Prances and bubbles along with the gay insouciance of a compulsive storyteller

Observer

Mary Wesley is high-spirited and inventive, and keeps her wayward plot moving forward at a spanking pace

Daily Telegraph

Wesley's narration is as fast and surprising as ever; her subplots are well worked out and rich in detail

Times Literary Supplement

A charming love story and social comedy

Philip Howard, The Times

Once again she deploys her admirably comic skill to good effect; puncturing the pompous, exposing humbug, nudging our perceptions in the direction of the absurd

Financial Times
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