With sheer joy I read Barbara Pym’s . . . No Fond Return of Love. ” —Mary Gordon
“. . . comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself.” —Shirley Hazzard
“No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure.” —Jilly Cooper
“A splendid, humorous writer.” —John Betjeman
It’s every author’s main fear: That after working on a novel for years or decades, pouring your soul and sweat into the words, it finally gets published and…no one notices. Worse, it quickly melts off the shelves and sinks into obscurity, and you wind up buying all extant copies at a quarter each just to […]