by Mary Wesley · Penguin Group USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140108279
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«Jumping the Queue» is Mary Wesley's black comedy novel, published by Penguin Group USA in paperback (217 pages, in English).
Matilda Poliport, a recent widow, plans to take her own life. As she carries out her plan, she interrupts the suicide of Hugh Warner, a young man fleeing the police, and the encounter changes the course of both their lives. Uncomfortable questions arise about Matilda's husband's past. With black humour, the novel explores love, marriage, parenthood and death.
Jumping the Queue was originally published in 1983; this edition, from the King Penguin collection, appeared in 1988 and is set in the West Country (England).
For readers of British literary fiction who enjoy acerbic humour, mature characters and plots with unexpected twists.
Mary Aline Siepmann CBE, known by the pen name Mary Wesley, was an English novelist. During her career, she was one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including ten bestsellers in the last twenty years of her life.
