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  • “My favorite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy, as though I were meeting an old, dear friend who comforts me, extends my vision and makes me roar with laughter.”

    —Jilly Cooper

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    “Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures.”

     

    —Anne Tyler

  • “[Pym] makes me smile, laugh out loud, consider my own foibles and fantasies, and above all, suffer real regret when I reach the final page. Of how many authors can you honestly say that?”

     

    —Mavis Cheek

  • “The most underrated novelist of the century . . . The subtlest of her books—the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art.”

     

    —Philip Larkin
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