Excellent women
by Barbara Pym and Barbara Pym
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The lightly satiric focus is on loneliness bravely borne, the bearing-up being done by that excellent woman Mildred Lathbury, a 30-something spinster in the lingering post-WWII rationing of the early 1950s. Living in suburban London and on the fringes of academia, she becomes embroiled with the vicar, the neighbors, the neighbors' lodgers, and a few hopeless (and one rather intriguing) gentleman friends. Dryly, wryly funny, with a riveting sense of place, time, and character. (Part of the synopsis comes from the online Kirkus Review.)
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Single women, Fiction in English, Self-esteem in women, London, England, Great Britain, UK, Pym, Barbara Pym, Fiction, psychological, Single women, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, Large type books, English Psychological fictionPlaces
London, England, Great Britain, UKTimes
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