Dorothy Whipple

My Month in Books: March 2022

I look at two stories of twentieth-century working-class lives this month – Raymond Williams’s 1960 novel, Border Country, and Dorothy Whipple’s High Wages. Williams explore the lives of a family …

My Month in Books: January 2022

My selections for this month are two wonderful novels which, though set in very different milieus, both explore themes of marriage, family and powerlessness: Feet in Chains by Kate Roberts, …