An Unsuitable Attachment

Description:

This wry comedy of manners—Barbara Pym's seventh novel and the last one she wrote before a fifteen-year silence when she gave up writing novels altogether, a hiatus broken only in 1977—is set in the Parish of St. Basil's Church in a slightly unfashionable quarter in London. The vicar, Mark Ainger, his wife Sophia, her sister Penelope, a new arrival to the parish named Rupert Stonebird, and a gentlewoman named Ianthe Broome fret over improbable attachments and embark on a holiday to Rome that will prove decisive to them all

subjects: Fiction,  Married women,  Mate selection,  Sisters,  Spouses of clergy,  Librarians, fiction,  Fiction, romance, general,  London (england), fiction,  England, fiction,  Sisters, fiction,  Fiction, sagas

Places: London,  Rome