by Barbara Pym · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844084500
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«No Fond Return of Love» is Barbara Pym's comic and romantic novel, published by Virago in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Dulcie Mainwearing always helps others and neglects her own love life. When her friend Viola falls for Dr Aylwin Forbes, Dulcie decides to lend a hand; but Aylwin is drawn to Dulcie's young niece, and Dulcie discovers she may have fallen a little in love too. A comedy of errors about everyday humiliations and the possibility of requited love.
The novel was originally published in 1961. This Virago Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Paul Binding.
For readers of twentieth-century British fiction who enjoy humour and romance.
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In the 1950s, she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). After a period of rejection by publishers, her career was revived in 1977 when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin nominated her as the most underrated writer of the previous 75 years. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
