The Sweet Dove Died – Barbara Pym

The Sweet Dove Died - Barbara Pym
The Sweet Dove Died – Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym was a Kate Macdonald tip. A good one.

In The Sweet Dove Died, Pym strikes me as a more acerbic version of Tessa Hadley, Penelope Lively, Margaret Forster, with a period setting a generation or two earlier as Leonora, a lady of a certain age, dallies with two West London antiques dealers – handsome young James and his rather more portly but prosperous uncle Humphrey.

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