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They Knew Mr. Knight (Paperback, New ed of 1934 ed) Loot Price: R536
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They Knew Mr. Knight (Paperback, New ed of 1934 ed): Dorothy Whipple

They Knew Mr. Knight (Paperback, New ed of 1934 ed)

Dorothy Whipple; Afterword by Terence Handley

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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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Imprint: Persephone Books Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2000
Authors: Dorothy Whipple
Afterword by: Terence Handley
Dimensions: 194 x 137 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Edition: New ed of 1934 ed
ISBN-13: 978-1-903155-08-0
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN: 1-903155-08-8
Barcode: 9781903155080

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