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No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym | LibraryThing How can you not love a book that opens with a sentence like that?. The novel concerns the love lives of Viola Dace. Published in 1961, No Fond Return of Love was the last Pym novel published before the dark ages descended and Jonathan Cape and other publishers deemed Pym ;s work not commercially viable. I just read. His sister had introduced . KTR2010: Kerry Clare recommends No Fond Return of Love | The . Three lonely people come together in this poignant and witty novel of thwarted dreams, scandalous secrets, and star-crossed romance . She is the focus of our story. I ;m reading “ No Fond Return of Love ” at the moment, and very good it is too, making me giggle and snort with its descriptions of a conference of editors and indexers and various faded gentlewomen.Barbara Pym reading week 1st – 8th June 2013 | heavenaliFor the Pym reading week I am planning to read ;A very Private Eye; An autobiography in letters and diaries, and No Fond Return of Love – which I remember very fondly from my first reading of it. No Fond Return of Love was first published in 1961. Amazon.com: No Fond Return of Love (9781559213066): Barbara Pym: Books I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen Philip Larkin One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself Shirley Hazzard. Save money & smile! No Fond Return of Love: A Novel by Barbara Pym | 9781480408081. Return.of.Love ..pdf. At the conference, she meets two others: Viola . by Barbara Pym Our story begins at a conference in Derbyshire. In No Fond Return of Love , three people converge on an academic conference at a girls ; school: Dulcie Mainwaring, a middle-aged spinster living in the London suburbs; Viola Dace, an indexer; and Aylwin Forbes, a lecturer . And I like how meta- it is: references (nameless of course) to Pym the novelist herself, appearances by many of her other characters, characters (mostly but not only Dulcie) reading novels..." . ;Mrs Forbes is my husband ;s mother, ; said Marjorie… ;Oh then Eagle House must be a very special place for you, ; said Dulcie, much too gushingly in her . ISBN: 155921306X,9781559213066 | 220 pages | 6 Mb. A Dedicated Reading Week: Barbara Pym | Alex In LeedsI ;ve got three books here to read as part of the week (two novels and a very interesting looking non-fiction I found by chance) and I ;m looking forward to reading other people ;s thoughts and reviews to get a better handle on this new-to-me author. Barbara Pym is the thinking girl ;s romance writer, the only one I ;m aware of, outside of Jane Austen, who hits that sweet spot of an utterly unsentimental romance, one which can be read 1,000 times and . Marvelous Spinster Barbara Pym At 100 | The AwlHe first contacted her after the publication of No Fond Return Of Love , her sixth published novel, to ask if he could write "a review essay on her books ." This was in 1962; she was nearing 50, he 40. | heavenaliAll my May babies books were really excellent but the standout books for the month would be The Pat Barker novels Life Class and Toby ;s Room, and the Daphne Du Maurier books My Cousin Rachel and Jamaica Inn, another quiet little joy was William Trevor ;s ;Love