A Book Society Choice, shortlisted for the Femina-Vie Heureuse
Prize, the second Dorothy Whipple novel we publish is also
wonderfully well-written in a clear and straightforward style; yet
'this real treat' ("Sunday Telegraph") is far more subtle than it
at first appears. The Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks
after the house and Thomas works at the family engineering business
in Leicester. The book begins when he meets Mr Knight, a financier
as crooked as any on the front pages of our newspapers nowadays;
and tracks his and his family's swift climb and fall.Part of the
cause of the ensuing tragedy is Celia's innocence - blinkered by
domesticity, she and her children are the 'victim of the turbulence
of the outside world' (Postscript); but finally, through 'quiet
tenacity and the refusal to let go of certain precious things,
goodness does win out' (Afterword). And the "TLS" wrote: 'The
portraits in the book are fired by Mrs Whipple's article of faith -
the supreme importance of people.'
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