A Dubious Legacy - Softcover

Wesley, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140173277 ISBN 13: 9780140173277

Publisher: Penguin, 1994

Synopsis

Wesley's world is one of speculation about relationships, gossip, and innuendo. She explores forces that unite and divide friends and lovers. In 1944, Henry Tillotson brings his bride Margaret to his country house, where she takes to her bed and remains in self-indulgent isolation. Ten years later, two younger friends of Henry bring their girlfriends for the weekend. In the years that follow, the two couples marry and return regularly, their mundane lives punctuated by Margaret's eccentric boudoir conversations or scandalous ventures into their company. Henry dies in 1990, attended by his friends' (or his?) daughters, and the reader's visits to Wesley's well-realized world draw to an end with his departure. For readers who appreciate nuances of language and emotion and the incongruities of life, Wesley's book will be a treat.

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Review:

"'Wesley's books are a delight...a beautifully crafted tale, very sexy, very funny, I just didn't want it to end'" (The Sunday Times)

"'Mary Wesley holds you by the hand and you follow wherever she takes you'" (Kate Kellaway Observer)

"'Mary Wesley does it again, only more so...She marches straight into her tale, intriguing from the beginning, keeping up a pace that rarely slackens'" (Literary Review)

"'Wesley breezes along with customary grace and nonchalance, sniping maliciously at her characters while giving them a more or less good time'" (Financial Times)

"'A sophisticated cocktail of sweetness and cynicism'" (Kate Saunders Cosmopolitan)

Book Description:

'A sophisticated cocktail of sweetness and cynicism' - Cosmopolitan

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140173277
• ISBN 13: 9780140173277
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272