Someone at a Distance (audiobook) Category_Grey Books/Translations The author of Emmeline was

The author of Emmeline was the New York writer Judith Rossner (1935–2005)

uncomplicated people doing normal things

Mollie Panter-Downes

exported to the USA during the early 1920s

She has got a certain kind of British intellectual down to a tee: part of the book's nail-biting tension comes from our fear that Hilary won't do something stupid

Someone at a Distance (audiobook) Category_Grey Books/Translations The author of Emmeline was'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' wrote the Spectator about this 1953 novel by Dorothy Whipple, which was ignored fifty years ago because 'editors are going mad for action and passion' (as she was told by her publisher). But this last novel by a writer whose books had previously been bestsellers is outstandingly good by any standards. Apparently 'a fairly ordinary tale about the destruction of a happy