The Camomile Lawn
First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Mary Wesley |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Macmillan (UK) Summit Books (US) |
Publication date | 29 March 1984 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 304 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-333-36892-3 |
| OCLC | 59093668 |
The Camomile Lawn is a 1984 novel by Mary Wesley beginning with a family holiday in Cornwall in the last summer of peace before the Second World War. When the family is reunited for a funeral nearly fifty years later, it brings home to them how much the war acted as a catalyst for their emotional liberation. The title refers to a fragrant camomile lawn stretching down to the cliffs in the garden of their aunt's house.