INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING 'One of her very best - comic heartrending brave in short like
life itself' SHIRLEY HAZZARD 'Pym has a unique eye and ear for the small poignancies and
comedies of everyday life . . . [her novels] are miniatures perhaps but will not diminish'
PHILIP LARKIN Dulcie Mainwaring is always helping others but never looks out for herself -
especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes
so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin however is smitten with
Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself however ridiculous it might be is
falling just a little for Aylwin. Once life's little humiliations are played out maybe love
will be returned and fondly after all . . . 'No novelist brings more telling observation or
more gentle pleasure' JILLY COOPER 'A splendidly humorous writer' JOHN BETJEMAN
