Excellent Women: Barbara Pym (VMC) - Hardcover

Pym, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844085260 ISBN 13: 9781844085262

Publisher: Virago, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

One of the finest examples of high comedy (Lord David Cecil)

I don't think I've ever before recommended a novel as one that everybody will enjoy and yet - even with a certain assurance - I'm prepared to vouch for EXCELLENT WOMEN (Marghanita Laski OBSERVER)

I pick up her books with joy, as though I were meeting an old, dear friend who comforts me, extends my vision and makes me roar with laughter (Jilly Cooper)

Book Description:

Probably Pym's most famous novel
'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin

About this edition

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844085260
• ISBN 13: 9781844085262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304