Excerpt of the Week: From A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym

At long last, we're thrilled to debut the U.S. ebook collection of novels by the award-winning English novelist Barbara Pym. This newly released collection includes: A Glass of Blessings, Jane and Prudence, Less Than Angels, No Fond Return of Love, and Some Tame Gazelle.

[Pym] makes me smile, laugh out loud, consider my own foibles and fantasies, and above all, suffer real regret when I reach the final page. Of how many authors can you honestly say that? –Mavis Cheek

Please enjoy today's featured excerpt from A Glass of Blessings, which will transport you to 1950s England, where life revolves around the village green and the local church. There you'll meet Wilmet Forsyth, a restless housewife, whose conventional life takes a turn when she runs into the handsome brother of her close friend. Attractive and enigmatic, Piers Longridge is a mystery Wilmet is determined to solve.

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Barbara Pym (1913–1980) was a bestselling and award-winning English novelist. Her first book, Some Tame Gazelle (1950), launched her career as a writer beloved for her social comedies of class and manners. Pym is the only author to be named twice in a Times Literary Supplement list of “the most underrated novelists of the century.” She produced thirteen novels, the last three published posthumously. Her 1977 novel Quartet in Autumn was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.