Excellent Women - Folio Society edition

Excellent Women

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Excellent Women - Folio Society edition
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Excellent Women
Folio Society
Literature

Excellent Women

Barbara Pym
Edition year 2005
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Debra McFarlane
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 206
Dimensions 26 × 15.7 cm

Edition details

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. Introduced by A.N.Wilson. 7 colour illustrations by Debra McFarlane. Mid-brown endpapers. Bound in pale pink cloth blocked on all sides with an orange, brown and gilt picture. Dark brown slipcase. 206pp. 26x15.7cm.

About the book

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.

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