They Were Sister 1943

The cover (or jacket indeed) for They Were Sister by Dorothy Whipple, first published in November 1943. Her publisher Sir John Murray wrote to her: 'You have scored another real success. You have a wonderful power of taking quite ordinary people in quite unromantic surroundings, in their normal ways of life, and making them live and impress themselves on your readers' minds in a way that really grips. If the general public enjoys the story anything like as much as I have there will be no doubt about success.' (Random Commentary p. 146)