Someone At A Distance
| Author: | Dorothy Whipple |
| Category: | Fiction |
| UK Publisher: | Persephone |
| UK Publication Date: | [24/04/08] |
Avery North has been contentedly married to Ellen for twenty years, they have two children and live in the rural commuter belt outside London. When his mother advertises for a companion, the French girl who arrives sets her sights on Avery and callously threatens the happy marriage. Deeply involving and perceptive, Someone at a Distance is Dorothy Whipple's last novel, first published in 1953 and reissued by Persephone in 1999.
Author: Dorothy Whipple
Described by J.B.Priestley as the ‘Jane Austen of the 20th Century’, Dorothy Whipple (1893-1966) was the author of nine successful novels, as well as numerous short stories and two volumes of memoirs. Almost all of the novels were Book Society ...