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      An Unsuitable Attachment

      by Barbara Pym
      Published
      Jun 1982
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      233
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      'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman

      ‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly Cooper

      ‘The day comes in the life of every single man living alone when he must give a dinner party.'

      The parish of St Basil, on the fringes of North Kensington, is all of a flutter due to the arrival of Rupert Stonebird, a most eligible bachelor, in the neighbourhood. The local matchmakers are sure he will make a suitable husband for the vicar's wife's sister, Penny, or perhaps for local librarian Ianthe Broome?

      But Ianthe is in danger of forming a most unsuitable attachment for her new library assistant, John, a man of questionable background with not a penny to his name…

      Owing a debt to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pym's An Unsuitable Attachment is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called: 'the most underrated novelist of the century'.

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      Jan 1986 HarperCollins ISBN13 9780060970550 ISBN10 0060970553
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