As It Was Category_Grey Books/Single Women ‘Nobody is more shrewd than

‘Nobody is more shrewd than Mrs Whipple in hitting off domestic relations or the small foibles of everyday life’ and in 1961

called Halfway Down the Cliff

although the background is sombre

to ferry much old stuff across the river”

hands that brush one another in passing

As It Was Category_Grey Books/Single Women ‘Nobody is more shrewd thanAFTERWORD BY ISABEL RAPHAEL 328pp ISBN 9781910263327 'I remember so well that very first meeting' As It Was consists of two short, beautifully written memoirs, As It Was (1926) and World Without End (1931), about Helen Thomass life with the poet Edward Thomas. In the first book they meet, fall in love, make love, and get married. The second describes their life until the day Edward left to return to the trenches in France. Read together, they are a