Jumping the Queue

by Mary Wesley

Book Overview

Matilda Polipert, recently widowed, has decided to end it all. But in the midst of carefully plotting her own demise, she interrupts the attempt of another would-be suicide, a young man on the run... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140108270
• ISBN13: 9780140108279
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Want to read it again

I read this about ten years ago and loved it. It's funny in a mad way all the way through (or at least that's how I remember it) except for the ending which really did upset me - in a forgiving kind of way.Easy read, great plot and highly recommended.

Mary Wesley, recently passed on, great writer

The marvelous Mary Wesley passed away a few weeks ago. She was 90. She did not begin publishing until she reached her 70's. She wrote witty social comedy with depth and tenderness and could spin a wicked plot. This was her first novel. I had the pleasure of discovering her when Arts & Entertainment, a TV station, broadcast "Harnessing Peacocks," which was my favorite of her novels. I binged on her work in the 90's, reading one after another. Now that she's gone, I shall reread them all.