Recommended to me by my dear friend tim, who is extremely clever as she can draw, knit, cook, and do complicated math problems. She recently became addicted to Barbara Pym so I checked two of Ms. Pym’s books out of the library. Excellent Women is all about a spinster called Mildred Lathbury living in post-WWII England, being excellent by helping out at the vicarage and doing good works. This is not very exciting for her. However, she gets some new neighbors – an anthropologist woman who is not good at housekeeping, and her very charming and cheerful ex-military husband, by…
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