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256 pages

English language

Published Nov. 30, 1983 by Harper & Row.

ISBN:
978-0-06-080653-8
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This wry comedy of manners—Barbara Pym's seventh novel and the last one she wrote before a fifteen-year silence when she gave up writing novels altogether, a hiatus broken only in 1977—is set in the Parish of St. Basil's Church in a slightly unfashionable quarter in London. The vicar, Mark Ainger, his wife Sophia, her sister Penelope, a new arrival to the parish named Rupert Stonebird, and a gentlewoman named Ianthe Broome fret over improbable attachments and embark on a holiday to Rome that will prove decisive to them all

11 editions

Subjects

  • Spouses of clergy -- Fiction.
  • Mate selection -- Fiction.
  • Married women -- Fiction.
  • Sisters -- Fiction.
  • London (England) -- Fiction.