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EXCELLENT WOMEN - BARBARA PYM TASCHENBUCH

INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH   Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are
often taken for granted. She is a godsend  'capable of dealing with most of the stock
situations or even the great moments of life - birth  marriage  death  the successful jumble
sale  the garden fête spoilt by bad weather'. Her glamorous new neighbours  the Napiers  seem
to be facing a marital crisis. One cannot take sides in these matters  though it is tricky 
especially as Mildred has a soft spot for dashing young Rockingham Napier. This is Barbara
Pym's world at its funniest and most touching.   'One of the most endearingly amusing English
novels of the twentieth century' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH  'Barbara Pym is the rarest of
treasures  she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER   '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' THE TIMES

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