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Barbara Pym: Excellent Women (1988) No rating

Excellent Women, the second published novel by Barbara Pym, first appeared from Jonathan Cape in …

The Jumble Sale described in chapter 7 brought back memories of Scout Jumble Sales, where I remember the transformation of sweet old (as they seemed at the time) ladies into ruthless hunters snatching garments from each other and requiring the hapless scouts on the stall to adjudicate.