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  • Daphne du Maurier: The King's General
  • Deborah Lawrenson: The Secretary
  • Richard Cohen: How to Write like Tolstoy
  • Adrian Tinniswood: Noble Ambitions
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  • Martin Williams: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
  • Gavin Plumley: A Home for all Seasons
  • Robert Harris: Precipice
  • Nigel Slater: A Thousand Feasts
  • Joan Aiken: Tales of London Town
  • Alan Connor: 188 Words for Rain
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Karen

LOL! -- We must be in the same reading "mood" at the moment! I just finished A Glass of Blessings myself.
Pymically,
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Danielle

I've only read one Pym (Excellent Women), but you describe the mood perfectly (I have a feeling all of her novels are similar in some ways). There are several readers around the blogosphere reading her, it makes me feel like picking up one of her books (I have several on my shelves).

Rhys

I have bought this one . My mother knew Barbara Pym slightly having been brought up in the same town where Barbara Pym's father was a well known figure. My mother did not take to her books and nor did I. When I saw this one recently I thought I would give it a go. My fear is that I associate Barbara Pym with the colours grey, brown, beige and I want a world of more vibrant colour.

Simon S

I havent read any Pym but I think that this is going to have to change! I own one somewhere and will have to dig it out now that have read this review. Thanks!

Darlene

I finished No Fond Return of Love recently and absolutely loved it. Dulcie and Viola cracked me up, plain and simple.

Tara

"You wouldn't choose this book for its plot, but for its observation, its gentle humour, its careful, pensive mood."

I think that you are so right about this.

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