{"product_id":"the-priory-1","title":"The Priory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/Persephone.png?v=1775729186\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe setting for \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Priory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is Saunby Priory, a large house somewhere in England which has seen better times. We are shown the two Marwood girls, who are nearly grown-up, their father, the widower Major Marwood, and their aunt; then, as soon as their lives have been described, the Major proposes marriage to a woman much younger than himself - and huge change ensues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a classic plot (albeit the stepmother is more disinterested than wicked) and the book has many classic qualities; yet there are no clichés either in situation or outlook, just an extraordinarily well-written and deeply transportative novel by the writer who has been called the twentieth-century Mrs Gaskell.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Priory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a very subtle novel, so subtle that, as with all Dorothy Whipple’s books, it is very easy to miss what an excellent writer she is. As \u003cem\u003eBooks\u003c\/em\u003e magazine wrote in August 1939: 'Because it is so unaffectedly and well written, and because it conveys very effectively a sense of the old house and what is meant to be the various persons connected with it, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Priory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e carries a punch out of proportion to its otherwise artless-seeming content.’ Meanwhile Forrest Reid, the Irish novelist and friend of EM Forster, described it in the \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e as being ‘brilliantly original and convincing. It is fresh, delightful, absorbing, and one accepts it with gratitude as one did the novels read in boyhood.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eThe endpapers are taken from 'Wychwood', a 1939 screen-printed satin furnishing fabric designed by Noldi Soland for Helios; the pattern has an appropriately rural simplicity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dorothy Whipple","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44960221823023,"sku":"9781903155301","price":1599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/thepriory.png?v=1775725293","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/the-priory-1","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}