They Knew Mr. Knight

They Knew Mr. Knight
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Total Pages : 483
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ISBN-10 : 1903155088
ISBN-13 : 9781903155080
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Book Synopsis They Knew Mr. Knight by : Dorothy Whipple

Download or read book They Knew Mr. Knight written by Dorothy Whipple and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book Society Choice, shortlisted for the Femina-Vie Heureuse Prize, the second Dorothy Whipple novel we publish is also wonderfully well-written in a clear and straightforward style; yet 'this real treat' ("Sunday Telegraph") is far more subtle than it at first appears. The Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks after the house and Thomas works at the family engineering business in Leicester. 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.Part 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 "TLS" wrote: 'The portraits in the book are fired by Mrs Whipple's article of faith - the supreme importance of people.'


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