‘A memoir from the interwar Jane Austen’ | Air Mail, Editor’s Picks

‘Dorothy Whipple was a popular English novelist between the two World Wars who enjoyed a resurgence earlier this century, when critics re-discovered her tales of middle-class life, notably High Wages and They Knew Mr. Knight. “The Jane Austen of the twentieth century,” declared the novelist and playwright J. B. Priestly. In their latest t of re-published memoirs, Slightly Foxed offers us Whipple’s account of growing up the middle child in Lancashire at the turn of the last century. (She was born in 1893.) The Other Day is hilarious and heart-breaking, told from the viewpoint of a child with a keen ear for dialogue and a sharp eye for character. And, as is always the case with Slightly Foxed editions, the book itself is a beauty to hold.’ – Jim Kelly, Air Mail