'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity
of love' commented the Spectator recently about this 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 last novel by a writer whose books had
previously been bestsellers is outstandingly good by any standards.
Apparently 'a fairly ordinary tale about the destruction of a happy
marriage' (Nina Bawden in the Preface) yet 'it makes compulsive
reading' in its description of an ordinary family ('Ellen was that
unfashionable creature, a happy housewife') 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). 'The prose is simple, the
psychology spot on' said the Telegraph, and John Sandoe Books
commented: 'We have all delighted in this unjustly forgotten novel;
it is well written and compelling.'
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