Excellent Women

Pym, Barbara

£8.99

Mildred Lathbury is one of those ‘excellent women’ who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, capable of dealing with almost anything. As such, she often gets herself embroiled in other people’s lives – especially those of her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, whose marriage seems to be on the rocks.

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Publish Date: 03/09/2009
ISBN: 9781844084517 Category: Tags: ,

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‘I’m a huge fan of Barbara Pym’ RICHARD OSMAN
‘One of the most endearingly amusing English novels of the twentieth century’ ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH

Mildred Lathbury is one of those ‘excellent women’ who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, ‘capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life – birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather’.

As such, she often gets herself embroiled in other people’s lives – especially those of her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, whose marriage seems to be on the rocks. One cannot take sides in these matters, though it is tricky, especially as Mildred, teetering on the edge of spinsterhood, has a soft spot for dashing young Rockingham Napier.

This is Barbara Pym’s world at its funniest and most touching.

I pick up her books with joy, as though I were meeting an old, dear friend who comforts me, extends my vision and makes me roar with laughter’ Jilly Cooper

Additional information

Weight 237 g
Dimensions 200 × 130 × 21 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

288

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.914 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K