Esta novela, publicada a comienzos de los años 50 y poseedora del encanto de la época, sigue resultando de gran interés en la actualidad. Sus personajes, magistralmente retratados, parecen reales, y los sentimientos que experimentan...
Las viejas paredes del Priorato de Saunby aún parecen conservar el eco de un mundo que se desvanece. En esa gran mansión inglesa venida a menos, los Marwood continúan aferrados a sus rígidas rutinas y tradiciones. Sin embargo,...
En la Inglaterra de los años treinta, tres hermanas se casan con hombres muy distintos: la sensata Lucy con un hombre pobre y mayor que ella; la insegura Charlotte con un comercial controlador y violento, y la hermosa Vera con un hombre rico y atra...
Dorothy Whipple's key theme in her stories is 'Live and Let Live'. And what she describes throughout her short stories are people, and particularly parents, who defy this maxim. This work features ten short stories from three volumes of stories...
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...
Hattie is 'a stranger by birth' and not really at home anywhere, least of all among her family. Now, while in Ibiza with the carefree, younger man who has just become her husband, the meaning of her past is becoming clear, its hidden pattern emerging...