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A Few Green Leaves
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Barbara Pym |
Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognise as totally famil… |
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Jane and Prudence
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Barbara Pym |
Prudence pays Jane a visit in an English village where Jane's husband is the newly appointed vicar, and finds herself courted by a fatuous young widower. Prudence, at twenty-nine, has achieved nothin… |
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Less Than Angels
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Barbara Pym |
Catherine Oliphant writes for women’s magazines and lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom Mallow—although she’s starting to wonder if they’ll ever get married. Then Tom drops his bombshell: he’s … |
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Some tame gazelle
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Barbara Pym |
The Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Then, into their quiet lives comes a famous librarian, Nathaniel Mold, and a bishop from Africa, Theodore Grote - who each take to callin… |
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Less than angels
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Barbara Pym |
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 atte… |
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Crampton Hodnet
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Barbara Pym |
Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate. Of this, M… |
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A glass of blessing
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Barbara Pym,Barbara Pym |
**From Amazon.com:**
**Barbara Pym’s early novel takes us into 1950s England, as seen through the funny, engaging, yearning eyes of a restless housewife**
Wilmet Forsyth is bored. Bored with th… |
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Some Tame Gazelle
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Barbara Pym |
Harriet and Belinda Bede are middle-aged sisters who have only two things in common: their spinsterhood and their love for each other. Harriet is a bubbly, chubby coquette. Belinda is a meek, thin ro… |
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