With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith,author of The No. 1 Ladies'Detective Agency series.One did not drink sherry before the evening,just as one did not read a novel in the morning.In 1970s London,Edwin,Norman,Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem - loneliness.Lovingly and with delightful humour,Barbara Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations,their irritations,their judgements,and - perhaps most keenly felt - their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them. Deliciously,blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism,Quartet in Autumn shows Barbara Pym's sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. Its world is both extraordinary and familiar,revealing the eccentricities of everyday life.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781447289616Number of pages: 208Weight: 144 gDimensions: 196 x 130 x 16 mm
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Barbara Pym's unpretentious,subtle,accomplished novels...are for me the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past 75 years...spectacularBarbara Pym has a sharp eye for the exact nuances of social behaviourThe wit and style of a twentieth century Jane AustenVery funny and keenly observant of the ridiculous as well as the pathetic in humanityA spare masterpiece of loneliness in retirementQuartet in Autumn is immeasurably her finest work of fictionAn alert miniaturist...her novels have a distinctive flavour,as instantly recognisable as lapsang teaNo novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure.
Barbara Pym
Visit the Barbara Pym author pageAlexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith (or Sandy as he is often known) has written and contributed to over a hundred books including fiction,non-fiction and more than thirty children's books but he is best known for his No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series set in Botswana which has sold over twenty million copies worldwide.
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