The Camomile Lawn [SEP] narrative location
The Camomile Lawn
The Camomile Lawn is a 1984 novel by Mary Wesley beginning with a family holiday in Cornwall in the last summer of peace before the Second World War. When the family is reunited for a funeral nearly fifty years later, it brings home to them how much the war acted as a catalyst for their emotional liberation. The title refers to a fragrant camomile lawn stretching down to the cliffs in the garden of their aunt's house.
Background.
Mary Wesley first began writing "The Camomile Lawn"
, which starred Dawn French and Catherine Tate and the location where "Irish Jam" was filmed, starring Eddie Griffin.
Just to the south of the village is "Broom Parc", a cliff-top villa overlooking the sea which was the main location for Channel 4's 1992 serialisation of Mary Wesley's "The Camomile Lawn". It is owned by the National Trust. In 2012, "About Time", the latest Richard Curtis production, was partly filmed there.