Mary Wesley
Mary Wesley
Mary Wesley, CBEwas an English novelist. During her career, she was one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including 10 bestsellers in the last 20 years of her life...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 June 1912
fun risk pay
Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
running years car
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
people persons variety
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
writing kind particular
I don't write for any particular kind of person.
mother school science
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
marriage persons knows
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
imagination appearance reader
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
friends vocabulary important
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
change men games
Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
husband taken thinking
My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.
disappointment may surprise
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
enemy found code
I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.
lying fronts
We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.
people
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.