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Barbara Pym
‘One of the most endearingly amusing English novels of the twentieth century’ Alexander McCall Smith
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The Sweet Dove Died is a darkly comic exploration of love, loneliness and jealousy from Barbara Pym. the author of Jane and Prudence, and Excellent Women.
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A classic from one of Britain's most loved and highly acclaimed novelists.
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A unique autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, includes an introduction by Jilly Cooper
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Genteel North Oxford is riven by gossip and scandal in Barbara Pym’s exquisitely entertaining comedy.
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Probably Pym’s most famous novel ‘I’d sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen’ Philip Larkin
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A charming and funny tale of match-making misadventures by an author whose fans include Philip Larkin, Alexander McCall Smith and Jilly Cooper.
‘One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself’ Shirley Hazzard
Emma Howick, an aspiring anthropologist, chooses to settle in a country community in the heart of England, with a view to researching a study on The Social Patterns of a…
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Paula Byrne
‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio…
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Barbara Pym was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978 and is the quintessential VMC author. Following on from the huge success of JANE AND PRUDENCE, this novel was loved…
Hilary Pym,Honor Wyatt
This elegantly packaged armchair cookbook is a delicious tribute to BarbaraPym that will delight aficionados, and allow readers who are familiar with her novels to recall them with pleasure. Contains…
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‘A modern Jane Austen’ Alexander McCall Smith
Janice Rossen
Deborah Donato
Presents new territory in Pym criticism by questioning the assumptions and predispositions by which her novels have been received and judged. This book approaches the text of four of Pym’s…
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Dale Salwak
Annette Weld
Drawing upon unpublished stories as well as the familiar novels, the author defines the novel of manners and shows Pym’s place within the genre. She shows how Pym tailors the…
Caro is the wife of Dr. Alan Grimstone, a lecturer at a provincial university in a West Country town in England. She knows her circle believes that she should be…
Despite her husband’s aging, Wilmet Forsyth would like to believe she has changed very little. She cultivates a friendship with three unmarried priests and Piers Longridges, a man of unfathomly…
A modern Jane Austen’ Alexander McCall Smith
A novel about the tribulations of love and selflessness.
Harriet and Belinda Bede live a comfortable, settled existence. Belinda, the quieter of the pair, has for years been secretly in love with the town’s pompous (and married) archdeacon, whose…
From the author of Jane and Prudence, and Excellent Women
The author of Quartet in Autumn, Jane and Prudence, and Excellent Women
Thanks to his wife’s money, Adam Marsh-Gibbon leads a charmed life writing poetry and novels celebrated mostly by his fellow residents,
Life has a certain reassuring if not terribly exciting rhythm for the residents of North Oxford. Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster companion to Miss Doggett.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1977.
An Unsuitable Attachment is a classic novel from Barbara Pym, acclaimed author of Quartet in Autumn, Jane and Prudence, and Excellent Women
Tsagaris
This book seeks to explore how Barbara Pym subverts the discourse of the romance novel through her use of food, clothes, heroine and hero characterizations, and marriage customs.
Naghmeh Varghaiyan
In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan shows how humorous female discourse subverts stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. She…
A charming and funny tale of parish life by an author whose many fans include Philip Larkin, Alexander McCall Smith and Jilly Cooper.
One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself’ Shirley Hazzard
