Excellent Women
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Excellent Women

by Barbara Pym

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Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781844085262

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Genre: Classic Fiction (pre C 1945) / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945) / Romance / Stationery Items

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Reviews

I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym
Richard Osman, Guardian
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
One of the finest examples of high comedy
Lord David Cecil
One of the most endearingly amusing English novels of the twentieth century
Alexander McCall Smith
I don't think I've ever before recommended a novel as one that everybody will enjoy and yet - even with a certain assurance - I'm prepared to vouch for Excellent Women
Marghanita Laski, Observer
Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life
Anne Tyler
Why shouldn't the lives of cardigan-wearing spinsters and fussy confirmed bachelors be the engines of some of the finest comic writing in English? Not only was Pym a comic genius but she was ever so wise
The Times

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