A Sensible Life [antikvár]

Mary Wesley was bora 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 has alsó worked part-time in the antique trade. Mary Wesley has lived in London, Francé, Italy, Germany and several places in the West Country. She now lives 'rather a hermit's existence' in Devon. She has previously written for children and comments that her 'chief claim to fame is arrested development, getting my first növel published at the age of seventy'. That first növel was Jumping the Queue. Her later novels, The Camomile Lawn, Harnessing Peacocks, The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, Not That Sort of Girl and Second Fiddle are alsó published by Black Swan. Author photograph by Kate Ganz Dorment.