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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781844085804

Price: £8.99

ON SALE: 3rd December 2009

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Classic Fiction (pre C 1945)

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‘I’d sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen’ Philip Larkin

Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young – but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less.

Her interest wanders to the nearby Anglo-catholic church, where at last she can neglect her comfortable household in the more serious-minded company of three unmarried priests, and, of course, Piers Longridge, a man of an unfathomably different character altogether.

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The subtlest of her books - the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art
Philip Larkin
My 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 laughter
Jilly Cooper
[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 that?
Mavis Cheek
Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures
Anne Tyler
My 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 laughter
Jilly Cooper
There is a thrill of humanity through all her work
Shirley Hazzard
Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures
Anne Tyler
[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 that?
Mavis Cheek
I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym
Richard Osman
I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen
Philip Larkin