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Excellent Women

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3rd July 2008

Price: £14.99

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Selected: Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781844085262
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Reviews

The Times
Why shouldn't the lives of cardigan-wearing spinsters and fussy confirmed bachelors be the engines of some of the finest comic writing in English? Not only was Pym a comic genius but she was ever so wise
Marghanita Laski, Observer
I don't think I've ever before recommended a novel as one that everybody will enjoy and yet - even with a certain assurance - I'm prepared to vouch for Excellent Women
Jilly Cooper
I pick up her books with joy, as though I were meeting an old, dear friend who comforts me, extends my vision and makes me roar with laughter
Anne Tyler
Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life
Lord David Cecil
One of the finest examples of high comedy
Alexander McCall Smith
One of the most endearingly amusing English novels of the twentieth century
Richard Osman, Guardian
I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym