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Not That Sort of Girl
Summary
Not That Sort of Girl (1987) is a novel by British author Mary Wesley. The novel is set in Southern England and takes its beginning in the late 1930s and follows the life of Rose Peel throughout 48 years of marriage.
At the age of 19 Rose is in love with the passionate but penniless Mylo Cooper but agrees to marry Ned Peel. She doesn't love Ned, but it's the safe thing to do. Ned has inherited a country house called Slepe from an uncle, and the married couple move in shortly after the wedding. Rose immediately falls in love with the house and its garden, if not with its owner. During the war Ned is away from the house a lot and her real love, Mylo, starts visiting her at Slepe. They go on meeting each other secretly through all 48 years of Rose's marriage until her husband's death.
Shortly after Ned dies, Rose leaves Slepe, her beloved home for half a century (now her son's and not so beloved daughter-in-law's), taking only a few things with her. Temporarily installed in a hotel room, Rose starts looking back on her life. Her marriage was one of convenience; she was never passionately in love with her husband. However, on their wedding night she promised him that she would never leave him, a promise she could never break. Now at the age of 67 she is free, and doesn't know where she is going in life.
Rose: Married to Ned Peel, although she is in love with Mylo Cooper. She is thirteen years younger than her husband.
Ned Peel: Rose's husband and the owner of the estate named Slepe.
Mylo Cooper: In love with Rose, but too poor to be marriage material. During the war he smuggles Frenchmen across the Channel.
Mr Freeling: Rose's father, who says he has cancer to get things his way.
Mrs Freeling: Rose's mother, who starts to live when her husband dies.
Christopher: Ned's and Rose's son (their only child).
Mrs Edith Malone: A friend of Rose and the superior socialite of the area.
Emily Thornby: Nicholas Thornby's twin sister. She has an affair with Ned, who may be the father of her child.
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