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Excellent Women
A must-read for Austen fans. Alexander McCall Smith, writing for The Guardian, calls this novel "one of the 20th century’s most endearing and amusing novels."
About the Book
Publisher’s description:
Excellent Women is one of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies. This is Barbara Pym’s world at its funniest.
Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those excellent women – the smart, supportive, repressed women whom men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors – anthropologist Helena Napier; Helen’s handsome, dashing husband, Rocky; and Julian Malory, the vicar next door – the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.
