Quartet in Autumn (Picador Classic, 35)

by Barbara Pym (Author), Barbara Pym (Author), Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction)

• New

  Paperback
  2015

  $16.27

  With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith
  
  One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.

  In 1970s London Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly and with delightful humour, Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements, and - perhaps most keenly felt - their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them.

  Deliciously, blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn shows Barbara Pym's sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. A classic from one of Britain's most loved and highly acclaimed novelists, its world is both extraordinary and familiar, revealing the eccentricities of everyday life.