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
suggestion
You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.
awful children france keen knew local took travels west
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
disappointment may surprise
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
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.
marriage persons knows
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
enemy found code
I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.
divorce years people
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.