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Quartet in Autumn
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.
In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem – loneliness.
Lovingly and with delightful humour, Barbara Pym conducts...
Details
208 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Barbara Pym's unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels . . . are for me the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past 75 years...spectacularSunday Times
Barbara Pym has a sharp eye for the exact nuances of social behaviourThe Times
The wit and style of a twentieth century Jane AustenHarpers & Queen
Very funny and keenly observant of the ridiculous as well as the pathetic in humanityFinancial Times