by Barbara Pym
bookshelves: paper-read, one-penny-wonder, published-1955, amusing, cover-love, spring-2013 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Ali Read from April 17 to 29, 2013 Opening: A confused impression of English tourists shuffling around a church in Ravenna, peering at mosaics, came to Catherine Oliphant as s...
Opening: A confused impression of English tourists shuffling around a church in Ravenna, peering at mosaics, came to Catherine Oliphant as she sat brooding over her pot of tea.As we are beholden to the code of honest reviewing, here we go and it is bit of a bumpy ride:Firstly and overindulgently we ...
Barbara Pym seems to have this deft touch of differentiating people who are really very much the same. Middle class British anthropology students in the Fifties, and their families, are pinned out delicately like butterflies.
I like Barbara Pym.She's one of those gems of a writer who somehow got lost in the shuffle over the years. Maybe it's because she had problems getting published; maybe it's simply that she was a woman writing about country life from a woman's perspective, and the blokes who for some reason dominate ...
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