{"id":3949,"date":"2018-06-03T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2020-04-05T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T05:22:26","slug":"dorothy-whipple-young-anne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/dorothy-whipple-young-anne\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Whipple’s debut Young Anne is a Promising Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Young Anne follows the life of Anne Pritchard from a young girl of five to a grown woman in her early twenties. We see all aspects of growing up \u2013 family, school, first love, first job and marriage. There is no suspense, no big surprises; just an ordinary life of a young girl and the circumstances that she endures.<\/p>\n
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Love is a major theme in the novel \u2013 young love, unrequited love, love after marriage, love outside of marriage. Whipple delicately dissects all the different forms of love. The book is almost autobiographical with fictional sub plots which further deepened my interest in the book. I found a strong resemblance in the plot to Elizabeth Taylors, A Game of Hide and Seek<\/em><\/a><\/span>, one of my all time favourite books. In spite of the similarity, the books are vastly different from one another. While Taylor offers an emotional tale of two lovers suffocated by their love, Whipple presents a simpler tale of a young girl and her indecisiveness when it comes to love.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read <\/em><\/strong> : Elizabeth Taylor’s A Game of Hide and Seek<\/em> will break your heart into tiny pieces<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The novel definitely shows signs of being a debut. This novel and characters aren\u2019t as well fleshed as the ones in Someone at a distance<\/em>. I was a tad disappointed with the sketch of George, Anne\u2019s first love, as I felt we needed to know him as a character in more depth when he reappears in the life of the married Anne. However, I loved Anne for how flawed she is. Being brought up with parents with whom she wasn\u2019t very close to, she finds a friend and companion in the maid, Emily. Sometimes she ponders on why tasks like folding laundry are limited to her and not to her brothers, pale signs of a feminist awakening. We love Anne at her finest, get pangs of a motherly disappointment when she is na\u00efve; but throughout the novel we find ourselves rooting for the best to befall Anne.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n@PersephoneBooks has republished the debut, Young Anne, from the wonderful Dorothy Whipple and it is a delightful read <\/a><\/span>Click To Tweet<\/a><\/span>\n Whipple\u2019s magic lies in her simple writing about life taut with the emotional complexities of her characters. I loved Young Anne<\/em>. But Someone at a distance<\/em> remains my favourite, which I found to be ‘a heart wrenching tale of choices, a marriage and two women<\/a>‘<\/span>. I am looking forward to devouring the other novels by Whipple now that all her books are republished by Persephone. Whipple is every reader’s delight. <\/p>\n Mariana by Monica Dickens is a pursuit for happiness<\/a><\/span> I would always be thankful to Persephone books (and to my friend Michelle) for introducing me to the wonderful writer, Dorothy Whipple…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6307,16],"tags":[462,6369,198,9156,240,217],"thb-sponsors":[],"yoast_head":"\nFinal Verdict<\/h3>\n
\nTitle : Young Anne
\nAuthor : Dorothy Whipple
\nPublisher : Persephone
\nPublication: 2017 (originally 1927)
\nLanguage : English
\nPages : 292
\nRating : 4\/5
\nDisclaimer : Much thanks to Persephone for a copy of the book. All opinions are my own.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/h4>\n
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