The Camomile Lawn

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'The Camomile Lawn' is a novel by Mary Wesley about wartime London and Cornwall as seen through the eyes of five cousins. In 1992, Channel 4 Television Corporation produced a television adaptation.

The title refers to a fragrant camomile lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs in the garden of the main character's aunt's house. Here, in August 1939, they have gathered for their annual holiday. For most of them it is the last summer of their youth.

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Felicity Kendal played the scatty, snobbish, but endearing Aunt Helena and Jennifer Ehle plays the vampish Calypso - a kind of Samantha^{[citation needed]}, who goes on swearing that she only ever married her husband for his money well after everyone else has realised she secretly married him for love.

Film locations were at Broom Parc House, Veryan, Cornwall, and Portloe, Cornwall, UK.