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A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics 547 | Reading Level: very good
Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less. Her interest wanders to the nearby Ang ...Show more
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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, though, she often gets herself embroi ...Show more
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym; Jilly Cooper (Introduction by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the co ...Show more
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem - loneliness. With delightful humour, Pym takes us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements; and, perhaps most keenly felt, their worries about having ...Show more
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics 541 | Reading Level: very good
'It was odd that Harriet should always have been so fond of curates. They were so immature and always made the same kind of conversation. Now the Archdeacon was altogether different ...' Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, ...Show more
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