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Crampton Hodnet

By: Barbara Pym, Louis de Bernieres (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 2 June 2022 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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2.5 x 19.8 x 12.6

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INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES

'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN
'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKIN

Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. However, Anthea's father, an Oxford don, is carrying on in the most unseemly fashion with a student - they have been spotted together at the British museum! But the only liaison Miss Doggett isn't aware of is taking place under her very own roof: the lodger has proposed to her paid companion Miss Morrow. She wouldn't approve of that at all.

'Brilliant, hilarious and so very, very English' DAILY MAIL

'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPER

Industry Reviews

The rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination as it pauses for a moment in perfect understanding of a character. That sympathy stretches beyond the horizon of comedy - Time

An entertainment that is funny, poignant, observant and truthful

No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure

There is a thrill of humanity through all her work

She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heart-breaking silliness of everyday life

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