false 104015 178565 014310487X 9780143104872 113 <![CDATA[Excellent Women]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172462470m/178565.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178565.Excellent_Women 3.98 565 104015 3.94 2479 378 178569 1559212268 9781559212267 31 <![CDATA[Jane and Prudence]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172462472m/178569.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178569.Jane_and_Prudence 3.96 212 104015 3.94 2479 378 227002 0330326481 9780330326483 31 <![CDATA[Quartet in Autumn]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1253527900m/227002.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227002.Quartet_in_Autumn 4.01 200 Quartet in Autumn is one of the books Pym wrote during the 15 years when no one would publish her, and perhaps the same kind of balance between hopelessness and inner strength helped shape this novel's story about four friends in an office nearing the age of retirement. They are people who have lived unspectacularly, but who have conjured a sense of themselves from the quartet's unity. Things start to change when two of them retire. Pym maps this ordinary strangeness of life with her particular genius for brilliant psychological insight and quiet humor that never strains for effect.]]> 104015 3.94 2479 378 178572 1559212640 9781559212649 25 <![CDATA[Some Tame Gazelle]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172462473m/178572.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178572.Some_Tame_Gazelle 4.00 188 104015 3.94 2479 378 178567 155921306X 9781559213066 16 <![CDATA[No Fond Return of Love]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172462471m/178567.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178567.No_Fond_Return_of_Love 4.04 158 104015 3.94 2479 378 178568 155921354X 9781559213547 13 <![CDATA[An Unsuitable Attachment]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172462472m/178568.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178568.An_Unsuitable_Attachment 3.99 143 An Unsuitable Attachment is set in a parish outside of London. There the novel's "unattached" characters work out a confusing web of matchmaking and forming attachments. A new eligible bachelor in the neighborhood, Rupert Stonebird, finds himself choosing between two very different women.

Sophie, the wife of the Vicar of St. Basil, becomes determined to match her sister Penelope with Rupert, a plan that would seem to work well until a graceful and quite suitable Iantha Broome also becomes a member of the community. As Rupert grapples with courting either Penelope or Iantha, Iantha finds herself with two more suitors. This elegant novel will keep readers enthralled as unsuitable and suitable attachments unfold.

]]> 104015 3.94 2479 378 226980 033032649X 9780330326490 20 <![CDATA[The Sweet Dove Died]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172873278m/226980.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226980.The_Sweet_Dove_Died 3.94 139 The Sweet Dove Died, first published in 1978, she sardonically uncovers the sometimes troubling truths behind relationships. A chance encounter over a Victorian flower book brings together Humphrey, an antique dealer, James, his nephew, and Leonora. Although she is considerably older, Leonora develops a fondness for James. She's determined to keep him under her spell, until she realizes that she has to contend with the bookish Phoebe. When Ned, a wicked young American, appears on the scene, the book begins to live up to its droll title, taken from John Keats. ]]> 104015 3.94 2479 378 178566 1559212438 9781559212434 25 <![CDATA[Crampton Hodnet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172462471m/178566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178566.Crampton_Hodnet 3.86 146 104015 3.94 2479 378 587597 1559213884 9781559213882 15 <![CDATA[Less Than Angels]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176056525m/587597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587597.Less_Than_Angels 3.98 121 104015 3.94 2479 378 226981 1559212284 9781559212281 12 <![CDATA[A Few Green Leaves]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172873279m/226981.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226981.A_Few_Green_Leaves 3.94 124 In A Few Green Leaves the author combines the rural setting of her earliest novels with many of the themes--and even some characters--of her later ones. Switching points of view among many characters, she builds with accumulating effect the picture of life in a town forgotten by time yet affected dramatically by it. Historical time--represented by Druid ruins, the local eighteenth-century country manor, and the last aristocrats who occupied it in the 1920's--is juxtaposed against the banalities of life in today's world.

]]> 104015 3.94 2479 378 226971 0330334972 9780330334976 10 <![CDATA[A Glass of Blessings]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172873111m/226971.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226971.A_Glass_of_Blessings 4.03 105 104015 3.94 2479 378 227005 0452259967 9780452259966 5 <![CDATA[An Academic Question]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227005.An_Academic_Question 3.67 61 104015 3.94 2479 378 227003 0333349954 9780333349953 2 <![CDATA[A Very Private Eye: The Diaries, Letters and Notebooks of Barbara Pym]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227003.A_Very_Private_Eye_The_Diaries_Letters_and_Notebooks_of_Barbara_Pym 4.00 29 104015 3.94 2479 378 132862 3.43 290 28 132866 3.87 31 3 178573 0452264537 9780452264533 3 <![CDATA[Civil to Strangers and Other Writings]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178573.Civil_to_Strangers_and_Other_Writings 3.61 28 104015 3.94 2479 378 226972 0525247068 9780525247067 1 <![CDATA[The Barbara Pym Cookbook]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226972.The_Barbara_Pym_Cookbook 3.50 4 104015 3.94 2479 378 1882890 2905899115 9782905899118 0 <![CDATA[Dans un salon d'Oxford: nouvelles]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1882890.Dans_un_salon_d_Oxford_nouvelles 0.0 0 -- Poser sa voix
-- Gervase et Flora
-- Roman du front intérieur
-- Secret, très secret
-- Adieu, Balkans
-- Lorsqu'un matin d'orage
-- Les visiteurs de Noël
-- Dans un salon d'Oxford]]> 104015 3.94 2479 378 2696569 0330339664 9780330339667 1 <![CDATA[Barbara Pym Omnibus: "Some Tame Gazelle", "Excellent Women", "Jane and Prudence"]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2696569.Barbara_Pym_Omnibus_Some_Tame_Gazelle_Excellent_Women_Jane_and_Prudence_ 0.0 0 104015 3.94 2479 378 7311639 0745127673 9780745127675 0 <![CDATA[Excellent Women]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7311639-excellent-women 0.0 0 104015 3.94 2479 378 202818 4.03 80 13 227008 2869304692 9782869304697 0 <![CDATA[Lorsqu'un matin d'orage: nouvelles]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172873320m/227008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227008.Lorsqu_un_matin_d_orage_nouvelles 0.0 0 104015 3.94 2479 378 227010 2869304315 9782869304314 0 <![CDATA[Secret, très secret: nouvelles]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172873326m/227010.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227010.Secret_tr_s_secret_nouvelles 0.0 0 104015 3.94 2479 378