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

Jim Kelly, Air Mail

‘Don’t miss a memoir from the interwar Jane Austen . . . 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 . . .’ ’

The Getting of Wisdom

Hazel Wood on Dorothy Whipple, The Getting of Wisdom

‘If only people knew about Dorothy Whipple, I feel their lives would be so enriched,’ I remember the founder of Persephone Books remarking thoughtfully when I interviewed her for a profile of the firm for the very first issue of Slightly Foxed. And how right she was. It took me a long time – almost twenty years in fact – to catch up with Dorothy Whipple, and although I have enjoyed her fiction, which is compulsively readable, it is her childhood memoir, The Other Day (1936), that has touched and entertained me most.

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