Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Literature, Adults
This is not my rip. My thanks to the original uploader, Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Gerry Halligan Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins Categories: Classics, British Literature, Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pyms novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years, helped launch the rediscovery of the authors entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergymans daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those excellent women who tend to get involved in other peoples lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pyms world at its funniest. (Fantastic Fiction), Book discription (Audible.com):, Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth,
