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Shortlisted for the 1977 Booker PrizeThis is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly, poignantly, satirically and with much humour, Pym conducts us through their small lives and the facade they erect to defend themselves against the outside world. There is nevertheless an obstinate op...

Probably Pym's most famous novel'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin

Thanks to his wife's money, Adam Marsh-Gibbon leads a charmed life writing poetry and novels celebrated mostly by his fellow residents in the town of Up Callow in Shropshire, England. His lovely wife Cassandra caters to his every whim, although perhaps not as enthusiastically as five years earlier, when she first married her handsome yet difficult and unappreciative husband. Into their lives steps Mr. Stefan Tilos, the new tenant of Holmwood, ...

Life has a certain reassuring if not terribly exciting rhythm for the residents of North Oxford. Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster companion to Miss Doggett, even if her employer and the woman's social circle regard her as a piece of furniture. Stephen Latimer, the new cleric and Miss Doggett's dashing new tenant, upsets the balance for Miss Morrow by proposing the long discounted possibility of marriage. Miss Doggett's nephew...

Caro is the wife of Dr. Alan Grimstone, a lecturer at a provincial university in a West Country town in England. She knows her circle believes that she should be doing more with her life. She is the mother of a young daughter but relieved to be able to leave the girl in the care of an au pair. Her one selfless act--reading aloud to a former missionary at a rest home--is sullied when she allows her husband to 'borrow' some of the old gentleman'...

The finest introduction to Barbara Pym" (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those "excellent women, " the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for g...

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Part of the "Virago Modern Classics" series, for fans of Philip Larkin and Alexander McCall Smith, with an introduction by Mavis Cheek. Sisters Harriet and Belinda are happy with their quiet, parish life, but the arrival of Nathaniel Mold and Theodore Grote changes everything.

Las aventuras de un ama de casa en busca del mejor partido para su amiga.Jane es una mujer madura y bienintencionada, pero está lejos de ser una esposa y madre perfecta. Prudence es una atractiva joven de 29 años, elegante y, para su desgracia, solitaria. A pesar de las diferencias, a ambas les une una amistad que se inició en Oxford cuando Jane era profesora de literatura inglesa y Prudence era su alumna. Ambas buscan, a su manera, un hombre ...

One of my favorites of Pym's novels, it turns a shrewd, mocking, but always affectionate eye on English country life 30 years ago. Pym's fans will feel completely at home when they step into the Jane Austen-like lives of Harriet and Belinda Bede."- Christian Science Monitor