Events › Book Clubs of EPL: Excellent Women

Love reading? Love to talk about books you've read? Come join us for lively discussions on all types of fiction and non-fiction. We'll feature different titles and authors each month. Come and share your impressions, thoughts and interpretations of a book we have all read.

This month we will be reading Excellent Women by Barbara Pym



One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent
Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman's daughter and a
mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those "excellent
women," the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted.
As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new
neighbors--anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing
husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door--the novel
presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily,
lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.

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