by Administrator | Aug 21, 2018 | Readers & Writers
I was so certain that High Wages was going to be a Cinderella-style story that I’d begun to formulate my review before I was even 100 pages in. ‘Who doesn’t love a good Cinderella tale?’ I was going to say. ‘With High Wages Whipple has taken Cinderella and relocated...
by Administrator | Aug 15, 2018 | Readers & Writers
Dorothy Whipple’s 1934 novel, They Knew Mr Knight, centres on a typical middle-class family in the Midlands in the late 1920s, the Blakes: ‘…the Blakes had been, like a happy country without history. They had lived in the Grove, holding together.’ Whipple examines...
by Administrator | Aug 8, 2018 | Readers & Writers
The house was called Greenbanks, but there was no green to be seen today; all the garden was deep in snow’. Dorothy Whipple’s 1932 novel (republished by Persephone Books in 2011) Greenbanks begins with a deceptive sense of calm. ‘Snow muffled the old house…and made it...
