Less than angels

By Barbara Pym

Subjects: Anthropologists, Fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), College students, Teacher-student relationships

Description: Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks.