![]() ![]() Whipple goes about her tale in a fairly straightforward way, and you know how it’s all going to go down long before poor cheerful, energetic Ellen even suspects she’s in danger. ![]() You can’t help but feel extremely bad for these people – even the horrible Louise. ‘ 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.‘ Unlike anything I’ve read recently, this story relies on the deft construction of its realistic characters, and if this book is anything to go on it seems that such characters are Whipple’s strength.īorrowing from the back of the pretty Persephone Classic edition I have (eager as I am to get back to reading Flush!): ![]() The plot, in all its agonizing detail, is far less compelling than the characters who populate it. True to all reports, this book proved to be a lovely, subtle depiction of the disastrous end to a very happy marriage. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |