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Title: Jumping the Queue (King Penguin) by Mary Wesley ISBN: 0-14-010827-0 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Want to read it again
Comment: I read this about ten years ago and loved it. It's funny in a mad way all the way through (or at least that's how I remember it) except for the ending which really did upset me - in a forgiving kind of way.
Easy read, great plot and highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mary Wesley, recently passed on, great writer
Comment: The marvelous Mary Wesley passed away a few weeks ago. She was 90. She did not begin publishing until she reached her 70's. She wrote witty social comedy with depth and tenderness and could spin a wicked plot. This was her first novel. I had the pleasure of discovering her when Arts & Entertainment, a TV station, broadcast "Harnessing Peacocks," which was my favorite of her novels. I binged on her work in the 90's, reading one after another. Now that she's gone, I shall reread them all.
Rating: 3
Summary: Odd tale ends with a surprise.
Comment: Jumping the Queue is an unusually crafted story that begins with Matilda Poliport's attempt to end her life thwarted by timing, a non-event which sets the tone for the whole tale. Mary Wesley describes Matilda's environs with exquisite word pictures: her cottage, her neighbors, town. When matricide Hugh Warner stumbles into Matilda's life, things take an interesting turn, and they keep turning that way till the end. Jumping the Queue is an extraordinary story whose ending surprised me, and I'm hard to fool.
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Title: Harnessing Peacocks (King Penguin) by Mary Wesley ISBN: 0140123938 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Camomile Lawn (King Penguin) by Mary Wesley ISBN: 014012392X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Sensible Life by Mary Wesley ISBN: 0140134360 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: An Imaginative Experience by Mary Wesley ISBN: 0140247491 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (King Penguin) by Mary Wesley ISBN: 0140108289 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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