Jane and Prudence Pym BarbaraPaperback
Jane and Prudence Pym BarbaraPaperback Barbara Pym affectionately skewers the charms, eccentricities, and secret yearnings of British middle-class lifeJane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close…
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Jane and Prudence Pym BarbaraPaperback
Barbara Pym affectionately skewers the charms, eccentricities, and secret yearnings of British middle-class lifeJane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Prudence, a year shy of thirty, is self-sufficient and fiercely independent--until Jane decides her friend should be married. Forty-one-year-old Jane is married to a vicar, has a daughter she adores, and lives a very proper life in a very proper English parish.
And Pru is nursing her own highly inappropriate desire for her older, married, and seemingly oblivious employer, Dr. Grampian. Jane has the perfect husband in mind for her former pupil: a widower named Fabian Driver.But there are other women vying for Fabian's attention. What follows is a witty, delightful, trenchant story of manners, morals, family, and female bonding that redefines the social