Author: Barbara Pym
Source: Library
My Review:
I needed a change from my normal reads and this was certainly that. I was immediately captivated by Mildred's world.
As this is British Literature there were a few slang terms or words used in unfamiliar to me ways, but it did not diminish my enjoyment of the story. I found the story humorous and interesting. While Mildred might be an "excellent woman," she also had some busy body tendencies. She often found herself in situations that she hadn't meant to step into.
This story is hard to explain, or even review. There were some things that annoyed me and a few things I didn't understand. But, at the end of the day, I found this to be one of the better classics that I have read.
★★★★/5
Synopsis (Goodreads):
One of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those “excellent women,” the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors—anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door—the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.
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