Not That Sort of Girl [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Mary Wesley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 5, 2007

'Rose, don't leave me. Promise never to leave me,' said Ned on their wedding night, revealing an unexpected chink in his perfect armour of wealth, good looks, and country estate. Rose promised ...After Ned's funeral Rose looks back on a life of dual constancy, passion, humour, and the ambiguities of love - and chooses her future.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

From a witty septuagenarian novelist of British upper-middle-class life (Harnessing Peacocks, The Camomile Lawn) comes this amusing story of a widow remembering her boring marriage and the man she really loved. The heroine is newly widowed Rose Peel who, at a tennis party when she was 18, fell for Mylo Cooper, tutor of French to her host's sons. We also meet the twins Emily and Nicholas Thornby who wander incestuously, cadging from their friends and returning material favors with sexual ones. Rose knows that her husband Ned had a lifelong affair with Emily and fathered her child, but she doesn't care: her body and spirit are Mylo's. Throughout World War II they meet and make love, sometimes in Rose's own house while Ned is away on military duty. This adds both to the licentiousness and the charm; it is a measure of the author's skill that the bond between Rose and Mylo is made not only believable but innocent. That happiness is in store for these two is inevitable. The novel was a finalist for a new British literary award, the Sunday Express Book of the Year.
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About the Author

Mary Wesley was born in Berkshire. She wrote two children's books before publishing her first adult novel in 1983 at the age of 70. Since then she has produced a succession of books dealing with middle-class mores, each written with ironic, detached amusement, and taking an unblinered, though compassionate look at sexual values. One of the best known is The Camomile Lawn, which considers sexual and emotional relationships in the turmoil of World War II. It, like several of her novels has been made into a television series.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Hodder Audio (July 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1844565483
• ISBN-13: 978-1844565481
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,592,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars wickedly delicious!, May 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Not That Sort of Girl (King Penguin) (Paperback)

Trust it to mary to tell a romantic love story in a funny and witty ways, I started reading her books with this one and have been hooked since!