Barbara Pym: Crampton Hodnet [2012] paperback Condition:New the 'slow horses'

the 'slow horses'

It uses both new approaches and much new evidence to shed fresh light on their sometimes fraught private lives

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Barbara Pym: Crampton Hodnet [2012] paperback Condition:New the 'slow horses'INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin 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