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INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES '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 Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academic
Darkly funny and full of stubborn optimism, Quartet in Autumn is a classic. Showing Barbara Pym at her very best, it portrays the strange and wonderful quirks of everyday life. Spectacular The Sunday Times Quartet in Autumn is immeasurably her finest wo
INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or
BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR INTRODUCED BY JILLY COOPER 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'I devoured all her books, but Jane and Prudence remains my favourite' JILLY COOPER 'Barbara Pym is the rarest of tre
INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING '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 'No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure' JILLY C
INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman 'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' Anne Tyler Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central
INTRODUCED BY SALLEY VICKERS 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heart-breaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with hands
BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR WITH 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' JIL
INTRODUCED BY HAZEL HOLT '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new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material.
INTRODUCED BY KATE SAUNDERS 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPER 'Beneath the gentle surfaces of her novels is a slow-building comedy, salt wit in a sal
Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other. The lives of Humphrey and James Boyce, a seasoned ant
Owing a debt to Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pyms An Unsuitable Attachment is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called the most underrated novelist of the century. I'm a huge fan of Barbara
Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure - Jilly Cooper, author of The Rutshire Chronicles series I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym - Richard Osman, author of The Thrusday Murder Cl
Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure - Jilly Cooper I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym - Richard Osman Could one write a book based on ones diaries over thirty years? I certainly
An acidly funny novel about a woman who falls for a much younger man by one of Britain's great writers of social comedy, now back in print. A lesser-known, darker sister to Barbara Pym's Excellent Women . The Sweet Dove Died is one of Barbara Pym&
"The finest introduction to Barbara Pym" ( The New York Times ): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Wo
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