# Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley

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- Authors: [Patrick Marnham](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-marnham)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-05-03

## Description

Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, including the legendary The Camomile Lawn , in a style best described as arsenic without the old lace. Many of her stories were inspired by her experiences during the Blitz, and by her marriages: the first to an aristocrat, a brief and conventional affair, and the second to a penniless writer she adored. A remarkable book about a remarkable woman, Patrick Marnham's brilliantly researched and wonderfully impartial book disentangles truth from rumour, highlighting the links between Wesley's real life and her fiction.

## Editions

### Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9949-817-9
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2007-05-03
- Language: en_GB