En cours de chargement...
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 COOPER Dulcie Mainwaring is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten with Dulcie's pretty, young niece.
And perhaps Dulcie herself, however ridiculous it might be, is falling, just a little, for Aylwin. Once life's little humiliations are played out, maybe love will be returned, and fondly, after all .
A Forgotten Author
Barbara Pym was often compared to Jane Austen for her ability to focus on small-town life women and their lives.
I can see where it comes from but she was also an author of her own right.
Her books are the perfect cosy read but she always had a sharper tone to her writing despite the subject matter and tackled women issues in the most profound and realistic way.