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Skill, subtlety and stylistic assurance ... her moral comedy
illumines life. - Daily Telegraph Harriet Cooper bumps up a rutted
lane in a Hillman crammed with everything she owns. She has come to
claim her inheritance - a large green bus - left to her by her
aunt, and moves in with two cats to live a frugal life, much to the
chagrin of her cousin who has inherited the rest of the estate.
This is a timely reissue of a 1960s novel that deals with the
lingering trauma of the Second World War and the dark secrets that
families carry, as well as being an early advocate of environmental
issues, which chime with such resonance fifty years later.
'One of my favourite Persephone books,' said Charlie Lee-Potter on
Radio 4's Open Book, 'is a collection of short stories by Elizabeth
Berridge first published in 1947 when she was 28.They are a
revelation to me, I was transfixed by the quality of the writing.
It seemed to me that they are quite radical stories, they were
quite sharp and hard and disruptive as ideas.' In his Preface A N
Wilson writes: 'She is a novelist of distinction who is also - and
this is a rarity - equally at home in the quite different medium of
the short story, with its need for an iron discipline and control.
Many of the masters of this genre, carried away by their
cleverness, either convey or actually possess the quality of
heartlessness. Others - and one thinks primarily of Chekhov - are
able to retain the discipline of the medium but suffuse its tight
confines with warmth. This is the quality of Elizabeth Berridge's
stories which sends us back to them, which makes us read and
re-read until they have become friends.' In "The Tablet" Isabel
Quigly wrote about Elizabeth Berridge's 'remarkable capacity for
taking one inside the world of her short stories and showing what
happens to the people, where they belong, what they feel.' She too
invoked Chekhov: 'It is there that she should be seen, at the
highest level of short-story writing, without stereotypes, without
foregone conclusions, with deep humanity and a recognisable voice.'
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