INTRODUCED BY SALLEY VICKERS 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heart-breaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks. Added to this love tangle are the activities ... Read More
INTRODUCED BY SALLEY VICKERS 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heart-breaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks. Added to this love tangle are the activities of Deirdre's fellow students and their attempts to win the competition for a research grant. The course of true love or academia never did run smooth. 'Her best [novels] are sheer delight, and all of them companionable. Quiet, paradoxical, funny and sad, they have the iron in them of permanence too' JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKER 'She can be seriously, hilariously funny - no other novelist has celebrated our national silliness with such exuberance' KATE SAUNDERS Read Less
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First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 256. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered brown on spine and on front cover. Covers slightly used, slightly dull otherwise near very good. with clean text. and no inscription.
If you like your characters deftly drawn where layers emerge like the dawn revealing the world, full of tone and flesh; if you like your dialogue witty but real; and if you like plots that you can hear and feel and walk around in, then pick up this gem from Barbara Pym and immerse yourself.
There are no body counts, no colourless characters, and no ex-military protagonists leaping from page to page and from spiralling aircraft to run away train. She doesn't need them, and neither will you.
This is solid thoughtful writing, with a strong narrative and populated by people you know. And as you finish this book, you'll get the feeling someone is winking at you. Enjoy.
