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Mary Wesley, CBE (24 June 1912 – 30 December 2002) was 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.

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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Marriage, Mother, Father, Came, Counted

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Judged, Know, Knows, Marriage, Persons

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

Everywhere, Moving, Seemed, Sensible, Towns, Walk

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

People, Persons, Conception, Quite, Person, Variety

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Braver, Children, Courage, Facing, Husband, Husbands

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

Code, Enemy, Found, Making, Signs

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Challenges, People, Resist, Threatening, Understand

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

Front, Fronts, Lie, Lying, Present, Sort

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Car, Living, Running, Twenty, Years

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

Back, Looking, Looking Back, Teaching, Write, Writing

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.

Book, Land, Life, Real, Writing

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Children, Growing Up, Stopping, Things, Thinking

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

Girl, Intelligent, Men, Read, Like

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Badly, Mother, School, Science

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

Course, Doe, Fun, Pay, Risk

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

Appearance, Deliberately, Imagination, Left, Reader, Sylvester

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

People, Quite, Spared, Unimaginative

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

Disappointment, Full, May, Perhaps, Surprise, Turn

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.

Ahead, Husband, Idea, Taken, Thinking, Used

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Animal, Animals, Children, Eggs, Evacuee, Respect