If you are a Jane Austen fan, you might enjoy the novels of Dorothy Whipple, who was described by J. B. Priestley as 'the Jane Austen of the twentieth century'. After the heyday of her popularity in the 1930s and 40s , her books fell out of fashion, but in the last few years many of her inderstated stories about lives and loves of the ordinary middle-class women have been rediscovered and reprinted. The author looks at one example of a typical Dorothy Whipple novel.