Re: Wesley

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The last few are less good, and have significant similarities. My

favourites? Not that sort of girl (which I adore), Camomile Lawn,

Harnessing Peacocks (in many ways funnier than most), The Vacillations of

Poppy Carew (um - also funnier than most!). Second Fiddle is rather

low-key; clever but a bit too blank an ending for me. A sensible life I

very much enjoyed, but very clear parallels to Camomile Lawn and not as good

IMO. An imaginative experience I wasn't keen on; some allusions to some

very deep issues which always remained shadowy side-issues (a bit like the

secret service and smuggling stuff in jumping the queue - maybe some people

like this sideways peek at complexity). A dubious legacy is brilliant in

parts, irritating in parts. A bit self-indulgent, with an irritating

central character, and a bit hastily edited perhaps. A similar device of

two virtually indistinguishable bright young couples that she used in A

sensible life.

Gosh, I sound very faint-praise ish here - I re-read them all except an

imaginative experience.

Anneliese who reads less and less the older Tim gets!

mitheth lethley & sexwords & Wesley

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> I've tried to answer questions absolutely straight when asked. One

> three years old then interpreted this as when the daddy puts his 'pip'

> into the mummy .... as for terminology - my mother was from medical

> family so everything got its proper name (except for ' 's -

> she ever one for the double standard!) - don't think she ever referred

> to my 'parts' until later on (that's what my n grandmother

> called the ladies bits, but I think it was the mens as well) - a

> friend of mine refers to the flue of women and I quite like

> Wesley's 'bush'. (not literally, you understand). Still euphemistic

> but not yukkily so, or prissy, I also hate 'front bottom' which also

> implies more dirtiness that what is helpful to women IMHO.

>

> Whilst we're on the subject of Wesley again - have never read the

> last few ones - from Second Fiddle onwards - can anyone tell me if

> they are as good as the early ones?

>