Author

Publication

1981 - Granada, London, United Kingdom

Language

English

Word Count

63,000 words, Guess

Page Count

252 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780586053706
  • Open LibraryOL16696137M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6066.Y58 J3

Description

The setting of this very funny novel, one of Barbara Pym's earliest, is an English village, where Jane's husband is the newly appointed vicar, and where Prudence will pay Jane a visit and find herself courted by a fatuous young widower. Prudence, at twenty-nine, has achieved nothing in life but a dull research job in London and a string of dud affairs; Jane, now in her forties, was Prudence's tutor at Oxford. Jane cheerfully concedes that she is an incompetent housewife, but she hopes that the move to a rural parish may transform her into a Trollopean vicar's wife, as well as a crafty matchmaker. There are many comic complications as Jane learns that matchmaking has as many pitfalls as does housewifery.

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Series Statement

  • A Panther book

Other Editions

  • Jane and PrudenceGranada1981-01-01
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