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- Hodder & Stoughton
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Mary Wesley's dazzling fourth novel, read by Anna Massey
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
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Praise for Vacillations Of Poppy Carew
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Told with elegance and asperity by the superb Anna Massey - Sunday Telegraph on THE CAMOMILE LAWN
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'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.' - Oxford Times
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