Every Good Deed and Other Stories Gift Wrapping:Tissue/Endpaper its 300 or so pages

its 300 or so pages are alive with compassion

sewed rather than spun (‘Aggie was staring out of the window

marvellous about children

'Welwyn Garden City'

'but because it conveys the combination of ordinariness and danger which is implicit in any totalitarian state

Every Good Deed and Other Stories Gift Wrapping:Tissue/Endpaper its 300 or so pagesISBN 9781910263082 272pp Persephone's second volume of Whipple short stories (the first was The Closed Door and Other Stories) consists of a novella Every Good Deed, originally published separately in 1944, about an adoption gone awry and nine short stories. The point about reading Dorothy Whipple is that there is an intimacy in her writing. But naturally this intimacy does not appeal to everyone. We feel that it appeals to people who like the writer