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Virginia Woolf described Elizabeth Jenkins’s first novel as a ‘sweet white grape of a book’
and have a spotless floor to show her
trying to keep the place going
The better way is to see the book as a historical document about the everyday life of the English upper-middle classes during the 1930s
The main theme
The Expendable Man (audiobook) Category_Grey Books/Biography Virginia Woolf described Elizabeth Jenkins’sThe Expendable Man by Dorothy B Hughes is the second thriller published by Persephone Books (our first was the very successful The Blank Wall). But it is far more than a crime novel. Just as Hughes's earlier books had engaged with the political issues of the 1940s the legacy of the Depression, and the struggles against fascism and rascism so The Expendable Man, published in 1963 during John F. Kennedys presidency and set in Arizona, evokes the