Someone at a Distance

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Someone at a Distance

â€˜A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of loveâ€™ commented the Spectator recently about Someone at a Distance, the 1953 novel by Dorothy Whipple, which was ignored fifty years ago because â€˜editors are going mad for action and passionâ€™ (as she was told by her publisher). But this last novel by a writer whose books had previously been bestsellers is outstandingly good by any standards. Apparently â€˜a fairly ordinary tale about the destruction of a happy marriageâ€™ (Nina Bawden in the Preface) yet â€˜it makes compulsive readingâ€™ in its description of an ordinary family (â€˜Ellen was that unfashionable creature, a happy housewifeâ€™) struck by disaster when the husband, in a moment of weak, mid-life vanity, runs off with a French girl. Dorothy Whipple is a superb stylist, with a calm intelligence in the tradition of Mrs Gaskell (both wrote in the Midlands and had similar preoccupations). â€˜The prose is simple, the psychology spot onâ€™ said the Telegraph, and John Sandoe Books commented: â€˜We haveÂ all delighted in this unjustly forgotten novel; it is well written and compelling.â€™

Country	USA
Author	Dorothy Whipple
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781906462154
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Persephone Books Ltd
Manufacturer	Persephone Books Ltd
NumberOfPages	432
PublicationDate	2011-12-14
Publisher	Persephone Books Ltd
ReleaseDate	2011-12-14
Studio	Persephone Books Ltd

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