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  1. Issue · Aug 10, 2026

    The Camomile Lawn… (opens the original)

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    There is a great wartime social history moment in Mary Wesley’s The Camomile Lawn (published in 1984) where the symmetrically featured goddess that is Calypso writes a telegram to her husband serving in hushed-up military barracks in Egypt – the postmaster tells her they’ll think she is writing in code and what indeed does ‘Calypso’ mean? Having an exotic name is rather grand though when Hector, her husband, in one of his more romantic moments, promises to grow an orchard of cherry trees that sp

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