Someone at a Distance is a 1953 novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple.

[1][2] A young French woman engaged as companion to an elderly lady ruthlessly sets out to seduce the son of her employer and take him away from his wife.

[3] It was the final novel of Whipple who had been a popular writer in the 1930s and 1940s.

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