Barbara Pym: Crampton Hodnet [2012] paperback Condition:New Amara will need to be

Amara will need to be as ruthless as he is

This book moved me to tears

Times Literary Supplement "Corrosively satirical and darkly comic

It uses both new approaches and much new evidence to shed fresh light on their sometimes fraught private lives

the 'slow horses'

Barbara Pym: Crampton Hodnet [2012] paperback Condition:New Amara will need to beINTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great niece, is in love with a dashing upper class undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. Anthea's father, however, an Oxford don, is tired of his marriage and