A Dubious Legacy
Published on 1. February 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-552-99495-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
228 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-552-99495-8 (9780552994958)
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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 he 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, is published by Black Swan, as are her later novels, 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. With the help of Kim Sayer's evocative photographs Mary Wesley showed us her own personal West Country in her last book, Part of the Scenery. Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year's honour list.