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Kristin Atherton
About this listen
Introduced by Louis de Bernieres.
Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. However, Anthea's father, an Oxford don, is carrying on in the most unseemly fashion with a student—they have been spotted together at the British museum! But the only liaison Miss Doggett isn't aware of is taking place under her very own roof: the lodger has proposed to her paid companion Miss Morrow. She wouldn't approve of that at all.
©1985 Barbara Pym (P)1985 Hachette Audio UKCritic reviews
"I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym." (Richard Osman)
"Brilliant, hilarious and so very, very English." (Daily Mail)
"I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen." (Philip Larkin)
Well written and beautifully narrated.
Barbara Pym never disappoints and always entertains.
Marvellous
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The narration is lovely too. I really enjoyed listening on my dog walks!
Thoroughly cosy reading/listening
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Set in the prim and proper suburbs of north Oxford in the late 1930s, Pym’s gentle humour emerges from the foibles and self deceit of her characters. We are shown their various ways of dealing with the tableau of social acceptance that they must live within.
Both insightful and very funny it brilliantly outshines its sepia setting to stand the test of time with ease.
A small gem of gentle amusement
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Charming
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