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Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017

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Rhythmically forceful yet subtly musical and full of memorable lines

Barbara Pym: Quartet In Autumn [2004] paperback ZWWI Here is the ultimate masterThis is the story of four people in late middle age Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem loneliness. Lovingly, poignantly, satirically and with much humour, Pym conducts us through their small lives and the facade they erect to defend themselves against the outside world. There is nevertheless an obstinate optimism in her characters, allowing them in their