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.

After a mysterious catastrophe befalls much of the earth, Muriel, her son Paul, and his friend Henry must learn how to survive in this new, barren, and disturbingly empty world. By the author of A Dubious Legacy.

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.

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.

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

When James and Matthew spent the weekend with Henry Tillotson in 1954, they took an instant liking to the country house that Henry had inherited from his father. His wife was a bit odd though - she never seemed to get out of bed. Gossip suggested that Henry had inherited her as well.

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.

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,"