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A Sensible Life [Paperback]

Mary Wesley (Author)

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Publisher: Black Swan; Slight Moisture Damage edition (1990)
ISBN-10: 055299393X
ISBN-13: 978-0552993937
ASIN: B000LKYDIY
Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces

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4.0 out of 5 stars modern jane austen, October 17, 2001

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Not to say wesley has austen's genius, but one reads her with the same sense of delight.
This is an extremely sexy book, but without the extreme explicitness of romance novels, which I always think ruins it.
Wonderful light reading.

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5.0 out of 5 stars read all her books!, October 11, 2001

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I am currently reading all of Mary Wesley's books, they are addictive. She creates excellent, sympathetic characters, sets them in interesting situations, and makes the plot move along, without resorting to caricatures or unbelievable coincidences. Plus, she knows how to write GOOD.

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Amazing. Very sexy and exciting but not explicit and gratuitous. We meet Flora as a young lonely girl of ten on vacation with her selfish, neglectful parents. We follow her life as she matures to a beautiful woman. Three men love her but which does she love and which one will she choose. This is one book hard to put down.

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Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler on page 208, and page 247
Not That Sort of Girl (King Penguin) by Mary Wesley in Front Matter
Jumping the Queue (King Penguin) by Mary Wesley in Front Matter
A Dubious Legacy (Eagle Large Print) by Mary Wesley in Front Matter
Winston Churchill (Trailblazers of the Modern World) by Fiona MacDonald on page 265

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