Favorite quote: “I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.”
From the publisher: 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.
“Reading Barbara Pym is . . . a wonderful experience, full of unduplicable perceptions, sensations, and soul-stirrings.” —Newsweek
