Author

Publication

1982 - E.P. Dutton, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing14190
  • Goodreads2753342

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6066.Y58 U5 1982

Description

This wry comedy of manners—Barbara Pym's seventh novel and the last one she wrote before a fifteen-year silence when she gave up writing novels altogether, a hiatus broken only in 1977—is set in the Parish of St. Basil's Church in a slightly unfashionable quarter in London. The vicar, Mark Ainger, his wife Sophia, her sister Penelope, a new arrival to the parish named Rupert Stonebird, and a gentlewoman named Ianthe Broome fret over improbable attachments and embark on a holiday to Rome that will prove decisive to them all

Description

Rupert Stonebird, bachelor anthropologist, moves to a new parish and gradually finds himself becoming interested in the vicar's sister-in-law.

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