A Glass Of Blessings - Virago Modern Classics (Paperback)

Barbara Pym (author), John Bayley (author of introduction)

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Paperback 288 Pages / Published: 03/12/2009

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Synopsis

Another delightful offering from the divinely witty Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings finds the frustrated Wilmet Forsyth turn to the local church for solace and companionship. A triumph of comic timing on every page, this is Pym at her sparkling best.

Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less.

Her interest wanders to the nearby Anglo-catholic church, where at last she can neglect her comfortable household in the more serious-minded company of three unmarried priests, and, of course, Piers Longridge, a man of an unfathomably different character altogether.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781844085804
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 226 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm

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