Book Society

They Were Sisters too became a Book Society Choice. Sales before publication day passed 32,000, and the editor of Woman's Magazine said it was of course a masterpiece.DW was offered by Gaumont-British

The Hidden River had some bad reviews in influential places, but excellent sales. It was a Book Society choice, earning £2,500 in English royalties, £268 from Book-of-the-Month Club in Canada, and a dollar amount...

Its publication, however, was unmarked by any major review. It was the first novel by DW since her earliest of all not to be at least a Book Society Recommendation, if not a Choice. DW

LC 's Fenny (a Book Society choice, and sometimes called her finest novel), was set in or near Florence during the Second World War and the years just before and after it.

This was the first book LR published with the new firm of Arthur Barker in London. She took some trouble to disguise identities, since Barker was worried about potential libel actions. The Book Society backed...

She wrote it in 1946, and revised it in a state of dissatisfaction with her first version. Chatto and Windus were enthusiastic about it and offered her an advance of £150 and a royalty of...