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by Barbara Pym
I do love Barbara Pym’s books, with their amusingly dry but gentle humour and with just an aside or observation or thought that conveys so much and so accurately sums up the situation. They’re an absolute joy to read. I have a few of her books on my shelf waiting to be read, but I try to ration myself and space out my reading of them so I always have one to look forward to! I am treating myself at the moment by picking up this one.
by Barbara Pym
Oooh, I do love Barbara Pym’s books and am steadily working my way, very enjoyably, through them all. Her turn of phrasing and the humour, though often mixed with sadness and poignancy, is just delightful! This is one of her earlier books and is set in the 1950s.
by Barbara Pym
I adore Barbara Pym's writing! I’m reading a couple of her books at the same time (this one and Excellent Women) but whereas the Excellent Women book is set in the 1950s (which seems the kind of natural fit timewise for her books, I think, with the politely restrained mild spinsters from that time), I see this book was written in the late 1960s and published in the 1970s which makes me wonder if it will feel different being set in that later time.
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