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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 more subtle than it at first appears. The Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks after the house and Thomas works at the family engineering business in Leicester. The book begins when he meets Mr Knight, a financier as crooked as any on the front pages of our newspapers nowadays; and tracks his and his family's swift climb and fall.Part of the cause of the ensuing tragedy is Celia's innocence - blinkered by domesticity, she and her children are the 'victim of the turbulence of the outside world' (Postscript); but finally, through 'quiet tenacity and the refusal to let go of certain precious things, goodness does win out' (Afterword). And the "TLS" wrote: 'The portraits in the book are fired by Mrs Whipple's article of faith - the supreme importance of people.'
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Celia herself was not so happy in the drawing-room type of existence now thrust upon her. She missed the simple, busy life she had lived in the Grove. She missed her kitchen and her cooking, and she was cut off from the back door, which opened, it had always seemed to her on another aspect of life altogether. She could no longer comfort the coal man with a hot drink on a cold day or ask the vegetable woman in to get warm or rest a little....She pursued another form of charity now. She sat on committees and undertook to sell tickets for innumerable affairs. But the committees were often very tedious and she was not a good ticket-seller. She would say: 'Will you buy a ticket for so-and-so?' and then add: 'But don't if you don't really want one'....Celia disposed of most of her tickets herself......
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