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The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley: Episode 1: 1. Family Reunion

Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn

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Episode 1: 1. Family Reunion

The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley

1. Family Reunion

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A Cornish house with a fragrant lawn links five cousins through war and adulthood.

A Cornish house with a fragrant lawn links five cousins through war and adulthood. Read by Sian Phillips.

August 1939 – the last summer of peace before the Second World War. 

Oliver, Calypso, Polly and Walter are on a holiday visit to their Aunt Helena and Uncle Richard Cuthbertson, and their 10-year-old cousin Sophy.

The house - with a fragrant lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs - is the link between the five cousins which neither the war nor adulthood can break.

Mary Wesley novel, first published in 1984.   

Abridged in ten-parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. 

Read by Sian Phillips.

Producer: Tracey Neale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1989.

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Five cousins and their friends stay at a house with a lawn leading to the Cornish cliffs

With Britain on the edge of war, five cousins and their friends stay at a house with a fragrant lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs

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