''Someone at a Distance'' is a 1953 novel by the British writer

Dorothy Whipple Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) (26 February 1893 – 14 September 1966) was an English writer of popular fiction and children's books. Her work gained popularity between the world wars and again in the 2000s. Personal life Dorothy Stirrup was ...

. A French

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ruthlessly sets out to seduce the husband of her employer and steal him away from her. It was the final novel of Whipple who had been a popular writer in the 1930s and 1940s. It was republished in 1999 by

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. A dramatization was broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2022.

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Bibliography

* Lethbridge, Lucy. ''Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times''. W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. * Sponenberg, Ashlie. ''Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950''. Springer, 2006. * Turner, Nick. ''Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. 1953 British novels Novels by Dorothy Whipple Novels set in England John Murray (publishing house) books {{1950s-novel-stub