the_lirazel reviewed Excellent women by Barbara Pym
Review of 'Excellent women' on 'Goodreads'
I don't know if that ending makes me want to laugh or cry.
231 pages
English language
Published Oct. 29, 2007 by Penguin Books.
Excellent women
by Barbara Pym
4 stars
(7 reviews)
The lightly satiric focus is on loneliness bravely borne, the bearing-up being done by that excellent woman Mildred Lathbury, a 30-something spinster in the lingering post-WWII rationing of the early 1950s. Living in suburban London and on the fringes of academia, she becomes embroiled with the vicar, the neighbors, the neighbors' lodgers, and a few hopeless (and one rather intriguing) gentleman friends. Dryly, wryly funny, with a riveting sense of place, time, and character. (Part of the synopsis comes from the online Kirkus Review.)
urn reviewed Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Review of 'Excellent Women' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
I love the subtle character work and small small dramas of post-war English life in Barbara Pym novels. Mildred is such a self-deprecating but lovable narrator, and so well rendered. I loved this slow and in some ways unexciting book. Strongly recommend!
I love the subtle character work and small small dramas of post-war English life in Barbara Pym novels. Mildred is such a self-deprecating but lovable narrator, and so well rendered. I loved this slow and in some ways unexciting book. Strongly recommend!
Kathrin Passig reviewed Excellent women by Barbara Pym
Review of 'Excellent women' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Es wird viel Tee mit dem Vikar getrunken, aber auch BlumensträuĂchen am Hut und die Auswahl brauner Wollkleider spielen eine Rolle. Dann wieder Tee mit dem Vikar.
