local quiz

[pansyman]

what english writer known widely by her pen name published the first of a series of iconic and sophisticated novels when she was 70

[ladyalex]

Could it be MARY WESLEY, who wrote The Camomile Lawn ??

[Minoru]

Mary Wesley was born Mary Farmar in 1912 and had a novel The Sixth Seal published in 1969 but she did not achieve fame until a series of novels were written in the 1980s starting with Jumping The Queue in 1983. She died in 2002