Mary Wesley Libri

Londra, 1941. Juno, diciassette anni, accompagna alla stazione i due giovani che ha amato per gran parte della sua vita: Jonty e Francis, cugini e amici inseparabili, che l'hanno da sempre trattata come un soprammobile e che, prima di partire, con la gelida spietatezza della gioventù, non volendo andare al fronte vergini, un po' la forzano un po' la convincono a trascorrere una notte di sesso tutti insieme. Rimasta sola, si ritrova a vagare per Londra in una notte di bombardamenti. Viene soccorsa da Evelyn, un uomo dall'aspetto fragile, che con grande gentilezza le offre rifugio e, dopo aver sentito la sua storia, scrive una lettera al padre, invitandolo a ospitare la giovane Juno. Con un misto di spavalderia e infantilismo la ragazza decide di non raggiungere la madre, partita per il Canada con il nuovo marito, e di andare alla ricerca della famiglia di Evelyn, in Cornovaglia. Qui, trasformatasi in mozzo di stalla, contadina e dopo poco "piccolina" di casa, scoprirà un mondo nel quale non solo troverà pace, ma anche un luogo in cui non è più solo un soprammobile.

Matilda Poliport, recently widowed, has decided to end it all. It All. But her meticulously planned bid for graceful oblivion is foiled, and when she later foils the suicide attempt of another lost soul - Hugh Warner, on the run from the police - life begins again for both.

She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language. Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926--leading their privileged lives of secure routine pleasures--Flora was a ten-year-old misfit. Ignored by her self-absorbed parents, unloved, and pitied by the pleasant, stylish people in Brittany that summer, Flora was--peripherally--included in their gracious circles. And there, meeting kindly civilised people for the first time, she fell in love--with Cosmo--with Hubert--with Feix. It took forty years for the love affairs to be explored, consummated and finally resolved. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Living happily alone in a seaside town in Cornwall, lovely Hebe supports her son at an expensive boarding school by cooking and discreetly making love for profit, until the unexpected happens

A traveller on a train smells the burn of brakes on the rails as the train stops suddenly in the countryside. Looking out the window, he sees a white-faced woman leap from the train in aid of a stranded sheep. The image lodges in his mind, a familiar despair he knows.

Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Her, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual ritual of a holiday.

This series offers six graded stages providing more than 130 stories at different levels of ability. The lower levels feature a wide choice of original stories, while the higher levels feature adaptations of well-known works originally published for native speakers. There are titles to suit all tastes: fantasy and horror; thriller and adventure; classics; true stories; crime and mystery; human interest. The Activities section at the back of each title has been extended to include extra activities before, while and after reading, helping students to interact with the text and get the most out of each story. Each title also has an introduction, a glossary of key topic words, and an About the Author section.

Beautiful, independent and brazenly manipulative, 40-ish Laura Thornby plays muse to 23-year-old aspiring novelist Claud Bannister in "Wesley's mordantly humorous take on upper-middle-class British life,"

In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Mararet, home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry's life miserable. 'Poor Henry!' say his friends, as they visit at weekends and holidays. 'What an awful life he has!' But Henry is not at all the sad and disappointed man we might expect him to be. He manages to enjoy life, and indeed, has quite a lot of fun, one way and another ... Mary Wesley's story takes a sharp but light-hearted look at love, sex, and marriage - and the things people will do to get what they want