{"product_id":"they-knew-mr-knight","title":"They Knew Mr Knight","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 500px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/Screen_Shot_2016-07-25_at_12.47.03.png?v=1593033169\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAFTERWORDS BY TERENCE HANDLEY MACMATH\u003cbr\u003eAND CHRISTOPHER BEAUMAN \u003cbr\u003e\n496pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155080\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Book Society Choice, shortlisted for the Femina-Vie Heureuse Prize, the second Dorothy Whipple novel we published (after Someone At A Distance) is also wonderfully well-written in a clear and straightforward style; yet 'this real treat' (\u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e) is far more subtle than it at first appears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks after the house and Thomas works at the family engineering business in Trentham, a lightly disguised Nottingham. The book begins when he meets Mr Knight, a financier as crooked as any on the front pages of our newspapers nowadays, and tracks his and his family's swift climb and fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart of the cause of the ensuing tragedy is Celia's innocence - blinkered by domesticity, she and her children are the 'victim of the turbulence of the outside world' (Postscript); but finally, through 'quiet tenacity and the refusal to let go of certain precious things, goodness does win out' (Afterword). And the \u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e wrote at the time: 'The portraits in the book are fired by Mrs Whipple's article of faith - the supreme importance of people.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eA striking block-print in sombre colours, the fabric has some of the hard-edged quality of machinery; yet the leaves and flowers evoke the large garden by which Celia is so fatally tempted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003ePolice Court by Frederick Elwell, 1938 © Beverley Art Gallery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dorothy Whipple","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098752504115,"sku":"wly1789694378176","price":28.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098752536883,"sku":"pfu1789694378177","price":31.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098752569651,"sku":"bmq1789694378178","price":32.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098752602419,"sku":"hay1789694378179","price":52.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/they-knew-mr-knight_1.jpg?v=1789694407","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/they-knew-mr-knight","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}