Excellent Women
by Barbara Pym
Taste attributes: comedydramaromanceslowfresh & originalrealisticlinearenclosedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipunlikely connectionsempowerment/personal growth
Boxlist takeAn unhurried, intimate comic novel: grounded and inventive. Best if you like patience over pace.
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Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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5.0 / 5
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About This Book
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.
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- Author
- Barbara Pym
- Published
- 1952
- Pages
- 256
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- Open Library
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