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inherited from her father
‘seasonal cookery writing is all the rage
perhaps she should be granted some of the primaeval
a page-turner as witty and spiky as I imagine its author to have been – think Erica Jong in a hobble skirt
The endpapers are taken from a 1930 block-printed linen furnishing fabric
Because of the Lockwoods Category_Grey Books/Men (books about) inherited from her fatherPREFACE BY HARRIET EVANS 488pp ISBN 9781910263006 Because of the Lockwoods by Dorothy Whipple, Persephone's bestselling writer, was first published in 1949. It was her penultimate book. As described by novelist Harriet Evans in the preface, 'Because of the Lockwoods is one of my favourites of [Whipple's] novels. The story is deceptively simple: the entanglement of two families in a northern town called Aldworth. One, the Lockwoods, wealthy and