{"product_id":"the-new-house","title":"The New House","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"wp-caption alignright\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/Bedroom-with-a-Figure.jpg?v=1593108107\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"redtext\"\u003ePREFACE BY JILLY COOPER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e336pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155370\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'All that outwardly happens in \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e,' writes Jilly Cooper in her Persephone Preface, 'is over one long day a family moves from a large imposing secluded house with beautiful gardens to a small one overlooking a housing estate. But all the characters and their relationships with each other are so lovingly portrayed that one cares passionately what happens even to the unpleasant ones. \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New House\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1936, reminds me of my favourite author Chekhov, who so influenced Lettice's generation of writers. Like him, she had perfect social pitch and could draw an arriviste developer as convincingly as a steely Southern social butterfly.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'It is tempting to describe Rhoda Powell, the 30-plus, stay-at-home daughter of a widowed mother, as Brookner-esque,' wrote the reviewer in the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, 'even though Lettice Cooper wrote this wonderfully understated novel several decades before Anita Brookner mapped the defining features of quietly unhappy middle-class women.' Kate Chisholm in the \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e described Lettice Cooper as 'an intensely domestic novelist, unraveling in minute detail the tight web of family relations' but one who is also 'acutely aware of what goes on beyond the garden gate. The exposé of a family under strain because of changing times is curiously more vivid and real than in many novels about family life written today.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more on \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New House\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, take a look at the \u003ca title=\"https:\/\/persephonebooks.co.uk\/blogs\/the-persephone-perspective\/the-new-house\" href=\"https:\/\/persephonebooks.co.uk\/blogs\/the-persephone-perspective\/the-new-house\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePersephone Perspective\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eThe endpaper fabric for \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New House\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis taken from 'Rope and Dandelion', a block-printed velvet designed and printed by Margaret Calkin James for her new house, 'Hornbeams' in Hampstead Garden Suburb, in 1936.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBedroom at Bar House\u003c\/em\u003e by Mary Elwell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/products\/47-the-new-house-web.jpg?v=1591633300\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lettice Cooper","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54360523473206,"sku":"PB 47","price":18.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54360523505974,"sku":"PB 47","price":21.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54360523538742,"sku":"PB 47","price":23.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54360523571510,"sku":"PB 47","price":26.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/4182\/9430\/files\/new_house_thumbnail1.jpg?v=1785673423","url":"https:\/\/enclothin.com\/products\/the-new-house","provider":"enclothin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}