No Fond Return Of Love

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title No Fond Return Of Love
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Barbara Pym
Introduction by Paul Binding
SeriesVirago Modern Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 206,Width 126
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780349016092
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Virago Press Ltd
Publication Date 2 June 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' 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 . . . 'One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself' Shirley Hazzard 'No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure' Jilly Cooper

Author Biography

Barbara Pym (1913-80) was born in Shropshire and educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. When in 1977 the TLS asked critics to name the most underrated authors of the past 75 years, only one was named twice (by Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil): Barbara Pym. Her novels are characterised by what Anne Tyler has called 'the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life'.

Reviews

I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen * Philip Larkin * One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself * Shirley Hazzard * No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure * Jilly Cooper * A splendid humorous writer * John Betjeman * I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym -- Richard Osman