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    <body><![CDATA[My friend Rebekah recommended Barbara Pym on her blog recently, and as she is a sharp reader with exquisite taste, I had to discover Pym for myself. I had never even heard of Pym, but after reading <em>Quartet in Autumn</em> and <em>Excellent Women</em> I can see why some regard her as the most underrated British aut...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51063071">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Quartet in Autumn reminded me of Elinor Rigby--the sad isolation and the wierd things the isolated live and do. Its Pym at her most mature and while it has wit it is much darker than most of her work. Probably because she herself was dying of breast cancer.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A few years ago the London Times polled 100 writers and thinkers on who they considered the UK's most underrated writer, and the only author to be mentioned twice was Barbara Pym. I first encountered her writing in anthology of diaries and I loved her writing, but only read one of her novels this ye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41093201">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Barbara Pym was a victim of her times; she was out of print for many years, being regarded as &quot;old fashioned.&quot;  What a shame.  This book, published three years before her death, has been called &quot;her comeback novel,&quot; indicating that the years she was unable to find a publisher res...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58146683">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Barbara Pym wrote because it was her passion...the best motive for doing most things.<br/>When her publisher Cape, declined her next book after a great career (6 novels published between 1950 - 1961) because it was too old fashioned, Barbara, struggling with this huge blow to her self-confidence, f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37774433">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Barbara Pym's best. Equally funny &amp; sad in depicting the lives of her elderly characters. Whn I run out of books to read by her, I'll just have to start over again. All the comparisons to Jane Austen really make a lot of sense.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book's content was highly, highly depressing and disconcerting.  It reminded me a lot of the movie &quot;About Schmidt&quot; or the song &quot;Eleanor Rigby&quot; by the Beatles. At the onset, four people are shortly retiring after years of service in an office.  It seems like they have been sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16293815">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Did not finish this book -- lost interest near the beginning. I was surprised that I didn't like it, because I liked Excellent Women so much.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the most exciting story, but a fabulous character study, typical of Pym's style and understated wit.]]></body>
    
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