Owing a debt to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pym's An Unsuitable Attachment is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called 'the most underrated novelist of the century'.
'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' - Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murder Club
'The day comes in the life of every single man living alone when he must give a dinner party.'
The parish of St Basil, on the fringes of North Kensington, is all of a flutter due to the arrival of Rupert Stonebird, a most eligible bachelor, in the neighbourhood. The local matchmakers are sure he will make a suitable husband for the vicar's wife's sister, Penny, or perhaps for local librarian Ianthe Broome?
But Ianthe is in danger of forming a most unsuitable attachment to her new library assistant, John, a man of questionable background with not a penny to his name . . .
'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure' - Jilly Cooper, author of The Rutshire Chronicles
| ISBN: | 9781529091908 |
| Publication date: | 3rd October 2022 |
| Author: | Barbara Pym |
| Publisher: | Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 432 pages |
| Genres: |
Humorous Fiction Fiction: inspired by or adapted from other media Classic fiction: general and literary Romance: ‘western’, rural or ‘outback’ |
Owing a debt to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pym's An Unsuitable Attachment is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called 'the most underrated novelist of the century'.
'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' - Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murder Club
'The day comes in the life of every single man living alone when he must give a dinner party.'
The parish of St Basil, on the fringes of North Kensington, is all of a flutter due to the arrival of Rupert Stonebird, a most eligible bachelor, in the neighbourhood. The local matchmakers are sure he will make a suitable husband for the vicar's wife's sister, Penny, or perhaps for local librarian Ianthe Broome?
But Ianthe is in danger of forming a most unsuitable attachment to her new library assistant, John, a man of questionable background with not a penny to his name . . .
'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure' - Jilly Cooper, author of The Rutshire Chronicles
An Unsuitable Attachment features in the following genres: Humorous Fiction, Fiction: inspired by or adapted from other media, Classic fiction: general and literary, Romance: ‘western’, rural or ‘outback’
An Unsuitable Attachment is available in Paperback
An Unsuitable Attachment was written by Barbara Pym and published by Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
An Unsuitable Attachment has 432 pages
£9.89