A View of the Harbour
By: Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler In the …
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1. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
2. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
By: Barbara Comyns
3.85
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid… read more
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3. No Fond Return of Love
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Dulcie Mainwaring, the heroine of the book, is one of those excellent women who is always helping o… read more
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4. Crampton Hodnet
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more
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5. Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more
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7. The Pumpkin Eater
By: Penelope Mortimer
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The unnamed narrator of this story is married to her fourth and excessively well-paid husband. This… read more
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8. A View of the Harbour
By: Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler In the … read more
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9. Family Album
By: Penelope Lively
3.79
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A big shabby Victorian suburban house, the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall, the six m… read more
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10. They Were Sisters
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Three sisters marry very different men and the choices they make determine whether they will flouri… read more
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11. Cassandra at the Wedding
By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t… read more
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12. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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13. Good Behaviour
By: Molly Keane , Marian Keyes
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state… read more
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14. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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15. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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18. An Academic Question
By: Barbara Pym
3.58
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Caroline Grimstone, the bored young wife of an ambitious anthropologist, finds a cure for her tediu… read more
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19. The Last September
By: Elizabeth Bowen
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
The Last Septemberis Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized ti… read more
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20. Diary of a Provincial Lady
By: E.M. Delafield
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
When Diary of a Provincial Ladywas first published in 1933, critics on both sides of the Atlantic g… read more
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