Less Than Angels

Beschreibung

INTRODUCED BY SALLEY VICKERS<BR><BR>'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN<BR><BR>'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heart-breaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER<BR><BR>Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks.

Added to this love tangle are the activities of Deirdre's fellow students and their attempts to win the competition for a research grant.<BR><BR>The course of true love or academia never did run smooth.<BR><BR>'Her best [novels] are sheer delight, and all of them companionable. Quiet, paradoxical, funny and sad, they have the iron in them of permanence too' JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKER<BR><BR>'She can be seriously, hilariously funny - no other novelist has celebrated our national silliness with such exuberance' KATE SAUNDERS

Angaben vom Händler.