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A Few Green Leaves
A Few Green Leaves | Barbara Pym
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Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognise as totally familiar. In A Few Green Leaves, her last novel, her heroine is Emma Howick, anthropologist. Through her eyes Barbara Pym examines in her own ironic and individual style the quiet revolution in English village life, combining the rural settings of her earliest novels with the themes and characters of her later works. The result is a compelling portrait of a town that seems to be forgotten by time, but which is unmistakably affected by it. Romance shares the pages with death in this engaging novel that is the culmination of Barbara Pym's acclaimed writing career. 'I could go on reading her for ever' A L Rowse, Punch 'A vivid sense of how we live now' New Statesman 'Her sense of brilliant comedy is a direct inheritance from Jane Austen' Hibernia 'A beautifully written, very delicate comedy' The Times Literary Supplement
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MrsK
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Book haul💞. There are only one or two bookstores around here…and a bit of a drive to them. But I was lucky in my hunting today 😊

LeahBergen Lucky, indeed! 👏 2y
Tamra Nice book success! 2y
Ruthiella Great finds! 2y
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batsy Fab haul! 😍 2y
jlhammar Look at those lovely Pyms! How fun. I still have A Few Green Leaves to look forward to. Really enjoyed the other two. 2y
MrsK @jhammar I‘d driven over an hour to the only bookstore around. Spent 2 hours looking over everything and thought I was going to leave empty handed! I was about to give up, then there the were! So happy I found them! 😊 2y
BkClubCare Fun! 2y
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Minervasbutler
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Pym's last novel, and we're in familiar territory with an English village as setting, and a typical Pym cast of spinsters and oddballs. The comedy is so gentle it's easy to miss, and nothing much happens more dramatic than a Bring and Buy sale or a bit of village gossip. Which, of course, is exactly what makes it so true to most of our lives.

LeahBergen Pym! ❤️❤️ 3y
Ruthiella I love Barbara Pym too! 😍 3y
BkClubCare This was on my Back to the Classics list and I was supposed to do a buddy read. I think we forgot, tho. Moving up my tbr… 3y
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Ruthiella
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Wrapping up my #20in4 reading. I wasn‘t very disciplined in accurately keeping time ⏰😬. I know I read for an hour and a half on Friday after work and then...? But I did manage to finish Dr. Wortle‘s School, Adulthood Rites and Permanent Midnight. Now I‘ve started the pictured two books and will read for a couple of hours tonight before I sleep. 😀

Crazeedi End of your life is a good book 4y
Ruthiella @Crazeedi I‘m enjoying it so far.😀 4y
Andrew65 That‘s great 👏👏👏🙌🍾🥂🍾🥂🎉🥳 Thanks for playing along. 4y
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Read66
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My first time reading a Barbara Pym novel and I loved it. Will definitely carry on with her writings.

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shawnmooney
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The unparalleled joy of beginning a new-to-me Barbara Pym novel. There aren‘t many left before I‘ll have read the whole lot!

LeahBergen I feel like starting a Pym now. 😍 6y
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quietjenn
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Got a bonus day of today, because of the Eagles parade, but work is going to come early tomorrow, so already winding down.

EvieBee I love Pym! Lovely copy. 7y
LeahBergen Pym! ❤️ 7y
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