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Not That Sort of Girl
Mary Wesley
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Description for Not That Sort of Girl
Paperback. For the whole of Rose's respectable married life, she had kept faith with both men. To Ned she was a perfect wife and mother of his son. To Mylo, Rose was an unconventional mistress, answering his erratic calls. After Ned's funeral Rose looks back on a life of dual constancy, passion, humour, and the ambiguities of love - and chooses her future. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give her aristocratic husband her word: keeping it, however, proves harder.
For even on the day when she has promised to forsake all others, Rose's heart is with the true love of her life, Mylo, the penniless but passionate Frenchman who, within five minutes of their meeting declared his love and asked her to marry him.
Whilst Rose remains true to her promise never to leave Ned, not even the war, social ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099499121
SKU
V9780099499121
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Ref
99-57
About Mary Wesley
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. Although she initially fulfilled her parents' expectations in marrying an aristocrat she then scandalised them when she divorced him in 1945 and moved in with the great love of her life, Eric ... Read more
Reviews for Not That Sort of Girl
Mistress of the dark side of upper-class mores
Kathryn Hughes
Observer
Spare, well-crafted prose and a mixture of racy gentility, humour and unconventionality
Scotsman
Kathryn Hughes
Observer
Spare, well-crafted prose and a mixture of racy gentility, humour and unconventionality
Scotsman