PRE-ORDER: Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple

*This book is for pre-order only. Copies are due to arrive in early March.

Persephone book no. 3

'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' commented the Spectatorabout this 1953 novel by Dorothy Whipple. 'A fairly ordinary tale about the destruction of a happy marriage' (Nina Bawden) yet 'it makes compulsive reading' in its description of an ordinary family 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 Elizabeth Gaskell. 

REVIEWS

"The prose is simple, the psychology spot on." -the Telegraph

"We have all delighted in this unjustly forgotten novel; it is well written and compelling." - John Sandoe Books 

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback with jacket
Publisher: Persephone Classics
ISBN: 978-1906462000
Pages: 432