No Fond Return of Love

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Barbara Pym: No Fond Return of Love (2013, Open Road Media)

303 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2013 by Open Road Media.

ISBN:
978-1-4084-2981-5
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OCLC Number:
972681371
ASIN:
B00AW54DK6

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5 stars (1 review)

"Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself, however ridiculous it may be, is falling, just a little, for Aylwin. Once life's little humiliations are played out, maybe love will be returned, and fondly, after all."--Publisher description.

3 editions

even better as a reread

5 stars

reread this for my book club and it's just really great. the details! the shifting point of views and sympathy for the characters (who still drive me nuts). and it's even better if you think about indexing while reading it--why is Dulcie an indexer and what is that telling us about the gender and love plots? anyway. it's great.

Subjects

  • Female friendship
  • Fiction
  • Physicians
  • Nieces
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Large type books

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