Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Ceci

The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life—a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen. Jane

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1977 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "A spare masterpiece of loneliness in retirement" Telegraph In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in t

‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer