Natalia
Whipple serves a bitter slice of life to her characters, but to this reader her phrasing couldn’t be sweeter.
Her prose is insightful and restrained and captivating. I’ve been searching for her books for a long time and I was recently delighted to learn that Persephone Books now offers a few of her titles as audiobooks. Of course I bought all them. This is the first one I’ve listened to and Susan Wooldridge’s narration is perfect.
I didn’t know much about this book going in and I won’t summarize the plot here. If you like realism, if you like character-driven stories, if you feel things deeply and are curious about the inner lives of others, if you want to be attuned to the poetry of everyday events, then you should give this book a try.
Whipple serves a bitter slice of life to her characters, but to this reader her phrasing couldn’t be sweeter.
Her prose is insightful and restrained and captivating. I’ve been searching for her books for a long time and I was recently delighted to learn that Persephone Books now offers a few of her titles as audiobooks. Of course I bought all them. This is the first one I’ve listened to and Susan Wooldridge’s narration is perfect.
I didn’t know much about this book going in and I won’t summarize the plot here. If you like realism, if you like character-driven stories, if you feel things deeply and are curious about the inner lives of others, if you want to be attuned to the poetry of everyday events, then you should give this book a try.