Excellent Women

'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman

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Barbara Pym

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Hardback

Series:

Virago Modern Classics

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Cover design by Orla Kiely Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather . As such, though, she often gets herself embroiled in other people s lives - and especially those of her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, whose marriage seems to be on the rocks. One cannot take sides in these matters, though it is tricky, especially when Mildred, teetering on the edge of spinsterhood, has a soft spot for dashing young Rockingham Napier. This is Barbara Pym s world at its funniest and most touching.

Author Biography:

Barbara Pym was born in Shropshire and educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. When in 1977 the TLS asked critics to name the most underrated authors of the past 75 years, only Pym was named twice. Her novels are characterised by what Anne Tyler has called 'the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life'. She died in 1980.

Release date Australia

July 3rd, 2008

Author

Barbara Pym

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith

Pages

304

Series

Virago Modern Classics

Dimensions

201x138x26

ISBN-13

9781844085262

Product ID

2543169

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