Little Brown have re-launched the Barbara Pym novels with introductions from popular authors such as Alexander McCall Smith and with this one Salley Vickers. We re so glad her novels are being given a facelift as they are hugely enjoyable, witty and sharp. Treat yourself, you won’t regret it.
April 2010 Guest Editor Katharine McMahon on Barbara Pym...
This choice is in part in memory of my mother, who loved Pym (and Jane Austen) and who shared her with me. Pym has a wicked eye for the small things, and creates a world in which the minutiae of life really matters to the characters, as it does to us all. I love her clergymen and her worried, well-meaning ladies. Her great gift was to make us smile with, not at, the quiet absurdity of life.
Dierdre Swan, still sensitive enough to be conscious of being alone without a drink at a party and minding about it, has waited most of her 19 years to be rescued from the depredations of life in the London suburbs. Then chance arrives, through an instant, unexpected attraction to handsome anthropologist, Tom Mallow.
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Dierdre Swan, still sensitive enough to be conscious of being alone without a drink at a party and minding about it, has waited most of her 19 years to be rescued from the depredations of life in the London suburbs. Then chance arrives, through an instant, unexpected attraction to handsome anthropologist, Tom Mallow.
Less Than Angels features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Romance / Relationship Stories, Fiction, General Fiction, Recommendations
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Less Than Angels was written by Barbara Pym and published by Moyer Bell an imprint of Moyer Bell Ltd
Less Than Angels has 256 pages
