Someone at a Distance (Persephone Classics)

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If you're involved with a narcissist, you're always questioning yourself because you don't get much empathy; you don't get much validation," she says. While certain things happen and she doesn't pretend that her characters aren't going to feel what we expect them to- she is never lazy about the accuracy with which she describes what those feelings are like, and just how this particular character would process it- what images and memories and metaphors that this person's life experience would bring to mind. Almost all her books were Book Society Choices or Recommendations and two of them, They Knew Mr Knight (1934) and They were Sisters (1943), were made into films. Someone at a Distance (1953) was the first novel by Dorothy Whipple Persephone Books published, although it was the last she wrote.

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The ending is a bit too neat, in my opinion, but I believe the novel offers a brilliant examination of human frailty, happiness and family life.

After a few not very good and rather disappointing reads, I really felt in the mood for a Persephone. If a relationship is too expensive, then you practice portion control if you want to stay in it," she says.

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That the characters have been created in such a way that what is happening is what they would want, not what some expected narrative or pre-plotted story says they should want. Louise, living in France, has recently been jilted by her lover, who has married a woman with better social standing, so she wants to get away from the small village and replies to the advert. Their story may match those narratives, but if I'm convinced it comes from within, from reasons that mean something genuine, I'm on board. The closer they get to you, the more guilt they have to feel if they take their sexual interests elsewhere.Essentially, people who do not want to be revealed, choose social groups where people don’t actually give a damn about them. Meet them where they are at first, make them feel understood, and then perhaps you can influence them. Their interests as a separate human organism are at odds with your interests, and their disloyal behaviour keeps it that way. Narcissists can be some of the toughest types for family members to deal with, says Anita Gadhia-Smith, a psychotherapist who practices in the District of Columbia and Bethesda, Maryland.