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A Glass Of Blessings (Virago Modern Classics)

A Glass Of Blessings (Virago Modern Classics)

by Barbara Pym (Author), Barbara Pym (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less. Her interest wanders to the nearby Anglo-catholic church, where at last she can neglect her comfortable household in the more serious-minded company of three unmarried priests, and, of course, Piers Longridge, a man of an unfathomably different character altogether.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 03 Dec 2009
ISBN 10: 1844085805
ISBN 13: 9781844085804
Book Overview: Barbara Pym was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978 and is the quintessential VMC author. Following on from the huge success of JANE AND PRUDENCE, this novel was loved by Philip Larkin who declared it 'the subtlest of her books'.

Media Reviews
The subtlest of her books - the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art * Philip Larkin *
[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 *
Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures * Anne Tyler *
My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy, as though I were meeting an old, dear friend who comforts me, extends my vision and makes me roar with laughter * Jilly Cooper *
Author Bio
Barbara Pym (1913-80) was born in Shropshire and educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. When in 1977 the TLS asked critics to name the most underrated authors of the past 75 years, only one was named twice (by Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil): Barbara Pym.