by Mary Wesley · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552990820
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«Jumping the Queue» is the contemporary fiction novel by Mary Wesley, published by Black Swan in paperback (203 pages, in English).
Matilda Poliport, a middle-aged widow, decides to end her life, but her plans change when she saves a young man from a suicide attempt. From then on, both must choose between starting anew or carrying on with their plans, in a novel about loneliness, despair and the search for a new purpose.
Originally published in 1983 by Macmillan; this Black Swan edition is from 1984. The cover indicates that the novel was adapted for television by the BBC with Sheila Hancock in the lead role.
For readers of contemporary fiction and British narrative, with a marked psychological undertone.
Mary Aline Siepmann CBE, known by the pen name Mary Wesley, was an English novelist. During her career, she was one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including ten bestsellers in the last twenty years of her life.
