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“... I have no journalistic ability,’ Malachi Whitaker wrote in her memoir, And So Did I (1939), ‘and could not tell a good story to save my life.’ By this point she had published four collections of short stories with Jonathan Cape. In a review of her first book, Frost in April (1929), Vita Sackville-West called her a ‘born writer’ and praised her stories as ‘economical, unsentimental and absolutely convincing ...”