An Unsuitable Attachment
About this book
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
- england, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, romance, general
- fiction, sagas
- librarians, fiction
- london (england), fiction
- married women
- mate selection
- sisters
- sisters, fiction
- spouses of clergy