by Barbara Pym
The story was promising but not exactly what I was hoping for. The book title comes from a situation where the curate of the village North Oxford must explain to the vicar's wife why he missed evensong. While he had in fact been wandering the countryside with his friend Miss Morrow, he decided to te...
The moral of the story could be that we're never as important as we imagine we are. Pym could be read very sadly. It's possible to interpret her work as cruelly exposing the triviality of life but Miss Morrow's quiet but irrepressible joy in life is too full hearted. It's such a funny book and Pym c...
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