The final novel by the famed British novelist Barbara Pym—a characteristically witty story about an academic who becomes enmeshed in the eccentric village life that she means to study.
Completed barely two months before her death, A Few Green Leaves was Barbara Pym’s last novel, and is an acutely observed and wry portrait of an English village in the 1970s. The book follows Emma Howick, an academic in her mid-thirties, who moves to her mother’s cottage in a small West Oxfordshire village.
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Completed barely two months before her death, A Few Green Leaves was Barbara Pym’s last novel, and is an acutely observed and wry portrait of an English village in the 1970s. The book follows Emma Howick, an academic in her mid-thirties, who moves to her mother’s cottage in a small West Oxfordshire village.
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