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05 October 2023
528 pages
9781529091946
Imprint: Pan

Reviews

I’d sooner a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen
Barbara Pym’s unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels are for me the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years . . . Spectacular

Barbara Pym has a sharp eye for the exact nuances of social
behaviour

An alert miniaturist . . . Her novels have a distinctive flavour, as instantly recognisable as Lapsang tea