Barbara Pym affectionately skewers the charms, eccentricities, and secret yearnings of British middle-class life Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives.
Her 1977 novel Quartet in Autumn was shortlisted for the Booker Prize..
She produced thirteen novels, the last three published posthumously.
Pym is the only author to be named twice in a Times Literary Supplement list of the most underrated novelists of the century.
Her first book, Some Tame Gazelle (1950), launched her career as a writer beloved for her social comedies of class and manners. -Eudora Welty Barbara Pym (1913-1980) was a bestselling and award-winning English novelist. are sheer delight. . . -The Atlanta Journal Pym\'s best novels] . . .
Pym] does for her own domain what Jane Austen, Edith Wharton and Henry James did for theirs .
What follows is a witty, delightful, trenchant story of manners, morals, family, and female bonding that redefines the social novel for a new generation.
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And Pru is nursing her own highly inappropriate desire for her older, married, and seemingly oblivious employer, Dr.
But there are other women vying for Fabian\'s attention.
Jane has the perfect husband in mind for her former pupil: a widower named Fabian Driver.
Prudence, a year shy of thirty, is self-sufficient and fiercely independent-until Jane decides her friend should be married.
Forty-one-year-old Jane is married to a vicar, has a daughter she adores, and lives a very proper life in a very proper English parish.
Barbara Pym affectionately skewers the charms, eccentricities, and secret yearnings of British middle-class life Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives
