Dorothy Whipple: 2 books

A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love commented the Spectator recently about Someone at a Distance, the 1953 novel by Dorothy Whipple, which was ignored fifty years ago because editors are going mad for action and passion (as she was told by her publisher). But this...

This, the fourth Dorothy Whipple novel Persephone has republished, is, like the others, apparently gentle but has a very strong theme, in this case domestic violence. Three sisters marry very different men and the choices they make determine whether they will flourish, be tamed or be repressed. Lucy's...