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.

[2] After a coast guard fell to his death near Boskenna, Wesley suspected foul play and created a fictional version for her novel.

[3] Mary Wesley's sister quarrelled with her over the depiction of Helena and Richard Cuthbertson in the book, as she believed that they were based on their parents.

In 1992 the novel was adapted for television, independently produced by Glenn Wilhide and Sophie Balhetchet at ZED Ltd for Channel 4 and directed by Peter Hall.