His wife is long dead, his oldest son has escaped to a job in London, and his two daughters, Penelope and Caroline, are in their early twenties and don't do much of anything. The patriarch is Major Marwood, a fiftysomething widower who doesn't want to spend any money keeping the place up since he'd rather spend all his money funding cricket matches. The story is set in the late 1930s, just before the war, and centers around the Marwood family who live in Saunby Priory. It's my fourteenth Persephone book so far and I think it is my favorite. It's more than 500 pages, but I could not put it down. I just finished my first Whipple, The Priory, and I loved it. Well, I have taken the plunge, and I am officially on board. All the Persephone fans seemed to just love her books. "It was a great pity, she thought, that all the violence of life should fall on the young, before they have acquired any resistance to it."Įver since I began reading about Persephone books in the blogosphere, the same author's name kept popping up over and over: Dorothy Whipple.
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