The Nutmeg Tree is a 1937 comedy novel by the British writer Margery Sharp, which was adapted as a play and a film.

Many years before she had a daughter, but her father was killed in the First World War and the girl went to live with his wealthy relations.

In 1940 it was turned by Sharp into a play, Lady in Waiting, that appeared at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway.

The cast included Yvonne Arnaud, Frederick Leister, Helen Haye, Winifred Oughton and Maire O'Neill.

[1] In 1948, it was adapted into the American film Julia Misbehaves, directed by Jack Conway and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and Elizabeth Taylor.