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

"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...

"Quartet in Autumn" ist ein Roman von Barbara Pym, der das Leben von vier älteren Büroangestellten in London schildert. Die Hauptfiguren, Letty, Marcia, Norman und Edwin sind unverheiratet und haben keine Familie. Sie haben sich an die...

The Sweet Dove Died von Pym, Barbara

With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith. Mildred Lathbury is often taken for granted, and often gets involved in other people's lives. But things get tricky when glamorous new neighbours the Napiers move in. von Pym, Barbara

"Quartet in Autumn" von Barbara Pym, nicht Alexander McCall Smith, ist ein Roman, der erstmals 1977 veröffentlicht wurde. Das Buch handelt von vier älteren alleinstehenden Menschen – Letty, Marcia, Norman und Edwin – die zusammen in...

Jilly Cooper introduces this republication of an early comic novel by Barbara Pym. von Pym, Barbara

'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' Anne TylerIn a provincial university town Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband...

INTRODUCED BY JILLY COOPER 'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford...

INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES 'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPER 'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER Formidable Miss...

INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes nothing better than to make a fuss of new curates, secure in the knowledge that Count...

INTRODUCED BY KATE SAUNDERS 'I am a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN In a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she...