The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym

�_~Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure�_T Jilly CooperBetween the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will he be taken from her by a lover, like Phoebe . . . or Ned, the wicked American?�_~I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym�_T Richard Osman�_~Faultless�_T The Guardian�_~Her characters are all meticulously impaled on the delicate pins of a wit that is as scrupulous as it is deadly�_T The Observer�_~A coldly funny book�_T The Sunday Telegraph�_~Highly distinctive . . . The critics who have recently insisted on Miss Pym�_Ts too long neglected gifts have not been wrong�_T Financial Times
Binding: Paperback / softback