They Were Sisters (novel)

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They Were Sisters
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Author Dorothy Whipple
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
Publisher John Murray
Publication date
1943
Media typePrint

They Were Sisters is a 1943 novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple. Three sisters marry shortly after the First World War and experience wildly differing experiences of family life over the next twenty years.

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Film adaptation

In 1945 it was adapted into a British film of the same title directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Dulcie Gray and Anne Crawford. [1]

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References

  1. Goble p.498

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