Crampton Hodnet - Virago Modern Classics (Paperback)

Barbara Pym (author), Louis de Bernières (author of introduction)

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Paperback 288 Pages / Published: 02/08/2012

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Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. Anthea's father, however, an Oxford don, is tired of his marriage and carrying on in the most unseemly fashion with his student Barbara Bird - they have been spotted together at the British Museum! Miss Doggett isn't aware, though, that under her very own roof the lodging curate has proposed to her paid companion Miss Morrow. She wouldn't approve of that at all.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781844087211
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 202 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 20 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

An entertainment that is funny, poignant, observant and truthful -- Louis de Bernieres
Pym at her absolute funniest * Daily Mail *
The rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination as it pauses for a moment in perfect understanding of a character. That sympathy stretches beyond the horizon of comedy * Time *

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Louis de Bernières

Immortalised as the creator of the bestselling global phenomenon Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, British author Louis de Bernières was born in London and selected as one of Granta’s list of ‘Best Young British Novelsts’ in 1993. Known for his immersive, picaresque fiction, de Bernières first novels were a loosely connected sequence set in Latin America: The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. The success of Corelli ensured he need never work again but he followed the novel a decade later with Birds Without Wings; a Turkish epic inspired by War and Peace de Bernières said of it ‘'I'm one of those writers who's always going to be trying to write War and Peace: failing, obviously, but trying.' More recently his works have included A Partisan’s Daughter, The Dust That Falls From Dreams and 2018’s much-anticipated So Much Life Left Over.