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which in a time of peace and plenty people overlook or ignore

for her marriage to the man she was in love with

bury him and read his will

instructive study in the consequences of that kind of love

This sentence is typical of the opening of a Dorothy Whipple novel

Still Missing Gift Wrapping:Tissue/Endpaper which in a time of384pp ISBN 9781903155783 Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon, b. 1945, was rst published in both America and Britain in 1981. It is a difcult book to categorise. Is it a novel? Is it a detective story? It is in fact written in the spare, direct style of a thriller. There is no way to dene this extraordinary book except perhaps by quoting the opening section: You could hardly get to age thirty four without learning something about loss. By thirty four youre