Excellent women

Description:

The lightly satiric focus is on loneliness bravely borne, the bearing-up being done by that excellent woman Mildred Lathbury, a 30-something spinster in the lingering post-WWII rationing of the early 1950s. Living in suburban London and on the fringes of academia, she becomes embroiled with the vicar, the neighbors, the neighbors' lodgers, and a few hopeless (and one rather intriguing) gentleman friends. Dryly, wryly funny, with a riveting sense of place, time, and character. (Part of the synopsis comes from the online Kirkus Review.)

subjects: Single women,  Fiction in English,  Self-esteem in women,  London,  England,  Great Britain,  UK,  Pym,  Barbara Pym,  Fiction, psychological,  Single women, fiction,  England, fiction,  Fiction,  Large type books,  English Psychological fiction

Places: London,  England,  Great Britain,  UK

Times: early 1950s