THEY WERE SISTERS

by Dorothy Whipple ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 16, 1944

In the best and somewhat forgotten tradition, a substantial story of ordinary people and circumstances, adroit characterization and consistent portrayals which provide intelligent, sympathetic reading. Lucy, eldest sister, with the mother's death became responsible head of the household. Now, comfortably married to a professor, though still preoccupied with the problems of her younger sisters, Charlotte and Vera. Charlotte has married Geoffrey, once a scapegrace, now a bully and a brute tyrannizing over the three children, driving her to sedatives and alcohol which bring about her deterioration. Vers, beautiful, arbitrary, selfish, had married highminded Brian, found him dull, ignored him and their children and drifted into an unhappy affair with a young, unreliable Irishman. It is Lucy who now and again tries to help, fails -- but at the end salvages one child from each marriage and gives them the stability, the love they had lost.....Rewarding, discriminating reading.

Pub Date: May 16, 1944

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1944

Categories: FICTION