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Chargement... Harnessing Peacocks (1985)par Mary Wesley
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Een heerlijk tussendoortje! ( ) Can a woman whose family holds a family conference to decide and plan her abortion manage successfully to steal away in the night and run away to make a life for herself and her unborn child? It appears so. Hebe lives in a quiet English village with her son, Silas, and manages by working as a private chef to a few elderly ladies for a few weeks at a time, and a prostitute to select men, a group she calls, her Syndicate. The latter career is of course, not a well known fact, and most of her clients, carefully chosen, communicate with her only through letters sent to a Pakistani store. With her chosen lifestyle, Hebe lives a quiet but contented life, earning enough for the stiff tuition fees at Silas's private school. Silas comes home for the holidays but goes off to spend 3 weeks with a friend whose family have invited him on a sailing vacation. As Hebe contemplates the change in plans, she decides to offer her cooking services to one of her elderly clients for the time that Silas will be away with his friend. Things start to unravel, when one of her clients learns that she is to be at his mother's friend's place, a rather shy nephew meets Hebe, a stranger meet with Silas and one of her clients becomes her friend. Wonderfully humorous with a touch of whimsy. 'Harnessing Peacocks' is a curious read - whilst a bit dated, it's also shocking and amusing. I've only recently heard of Mary Wesley and her 'wild' ways and I have the sense she wrote this book in her 70's. Would have loved to have read this book about 20 years ago, but still recommend it as a bit of a farce, and some holiday fun. Hebe, an escapee from the British establishment, with great devotion, raises her raises her son on earnings made through her two great gifts: cooking and love-making. Her equally devoted clients are all threaded together as either family, friends or members of the establishment and each is hoping or scrambling to gain greater access to her. Hebe holds them all at bay, until one of the threads begin to become undone ... aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A young single mother funds her son's education in a most unusual way in this "delightfully lighthearted" novel from a beloved bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews). Ever since a pregnant and unmarried Hebe was forced to leave her grandparents' home in disgrace, she has put the needs of her son, Silas, first. Paying his tuition to an elite prep school comes before everything, and she will do whatever it takes to make ends meet--even offering some quite singular services to the sons and sons-in-law of the wealthy women she cooks for. But Hebe's plans soon go awry when her son winds up in an uncomfortable situation with the family of a school friend, her lucrative side business of is awkwardly interrupted--and her hopefully forgotten past reappears at the most inconvenient time . . . A delightful look into the love between mothers and sons, friends and relatives, lovers and spouses, Harnessing Peacocks is a warm and witty look at relationships that will amuse as it inspires. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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