BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym'RICHARD OSMAN 'My favourite writer...I pick up her books with joy,as though I were meeting an old,dear friend'JILLY COOPER'The subtlest of her books...the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art'PHILIP LARKINWilmet Forsyth is well dressed,well looked after,suitably husbanded,good-looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her staid husband Rodney,a civil servant,is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less. Her conventional life takes a turn when she meets the handsome brother of a close friend. Attractive,cultured and attentive,Piers Longridge is a delectable mystery Wilmet is determined to solve.
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Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349016122Number of pages: 288Weight: 230 gDimensions: 196 x 124 x 20 mm
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Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures
I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen...The subtlest of her books - the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art
I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym(Pym) makes me smile,laugh out loud,consider my own foibles and fantasies,and above all,suffer real regret when I reach the final page. Of how many authors can you honestly say thatThere is a thrill of humanity through all her workMy favourite writer...I pick up her books with joy,as though I were meeting an old,dear friend who comforts me,extends my vision and makes me roar with laughterA modern Jane AustenAnother instalment in America's exposure to the Pyro revival,which began in England in 1976 and happily arrived here in 1978...Essential reading for Pym's growing readership on this side of the Atlantic
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