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Vacillations Of Poppy Carew

by Mary Wesley

Vacillations Of Poppy Carew
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21st February 2008

Price: £8.5

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Fiction & Related Items / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

Selected:  Audiobook Downloadable / ISBN-13: 9781844567485

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Poppy Carew, smarting and in shock because her live-in lover has left her for a richer woman, is called to the bedside of her dying father, a wonderful loveable eccentric who dies laughing. He asks as his last request that he be buried in style by an undertaker who specialises in fun funerals. He also astonishes Poppy by leaving her a large sum of money.
As news of her good fortune spreads, other friends of friends, acquaintances of her dead father (who appears to have made his fortune by being nice to old ladies) and, not least, her ex-lover emerge. Suddenly there are too many choices for Poppy Carew…

(P)2007 Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks

Reviews

<i>Sunday Telegraph</I> on THE CAMOMILE LAWN
Told with elegance and asperity by the superb Anna Massey
<i>Oxford Times</I>
'Anna Massey could read the telephone directory and I would listen. When she's reading a writer of the quality of Mary Wesley, it becomes a real pleasure.'