June Meetup: Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Note: RSVPs for this meetup opens when our previous one ends.

For June, we will be reading Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. A paperback version runs 231 pages. It was published in 1952.

The GoodReads blurb is

One of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those “excellent women,” the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors—anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door—the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.