The Sweet Dove Died
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781560548522 (1560548525)
Publish date: September 1st 1993
Publisher: Chivers
Edition language: English
”Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.”Humphrey, a widowed antiques dealer, and his nephew James, who he is attempting to teach about the antiques trade, meet this elegant, aging beauty named Leonora Eyre at a book sale. Meeting such a woman at such a place filled Humphrey with horr...
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/668300089
Pym is a dry, subtle, witty, kind writer. Her characters in this book are dreadful and ordinary and sympathetic. I recommend reading other reviews of this book here on GR.
Books by Pym are always concerned with the inner lives and details of people living quiet, retiring lives in England . As always, there are frustrated love-affairs, slightly uncomfortable dinner parties, and carefully examined friendships. Thirty years passed between Pym’s first novel and this one, ...
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