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When James and Matthew, healthy young
men in their early twenties, went down to
spend the weekend with Henry Tillotson in
the summer of 1954, they thought the country
house he had inherited was most agreeable, if
a little scruffy. The farm, on the other hand,
was excellently run and beautifully
maintained. His wife was mysteriously
eccentric; there were hints that she was part of
Henry's inheritance.
They were looking forward to the midsummer
dinner party Henry had planned; he meant to
recreate those splendid extravaganzas his late
parents had given before the war. On such a
romantic evening James and Matthew rather
thought they might propose to the girls they
brought with them, Barbara and Antonia, a
less naive and unworldly pair than their
suitors supposed.
These are the central characters Mary Wesley'
has gathered in a novel that spans over forty
years. It is the story of a man whose flaws are
redeemed by kindness, generosity and wit. It
is a gloriously funny, human story. And it is
also a story of great tragedy. All these things
we have come to expect from the author of
such contemporary classics as The Camomile
Lawn, Not that Sort of Girl and A Sensible
Life.
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