
Excellent Women
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Narrated by:
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Jayne Entwistle
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By:
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Barbara Pym
Excellent Women is one of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.
Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those excellent women - the smart, supportive, repressed women whom men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors - anthropologist Helena Napier; Helen's 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.
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sublime!
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Perfect snapshot of a woman in time
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Gossip that rambled aimlessly without plot.
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Would you consider the audio edition of Excellent Women to be better than the print version?
Reading is always a pleasure but I have read it at least 4 times. Listening (twice) was glorious as well.What does Jayne Entwistle bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
She does voices quite nicely. Perhaps not how I'd imagined but nice enough.If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
"The Dominion of the Birds, I very much fear it's come to that!"Any additional comments?
I wish all her books were available to be listened to.As much a pleasure as reading the book
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Nice book
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An Excellent Novel
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If you could sum up Excellent Women in three words, what would they be?
Funny, touching, smart.What about Jayne Entwistle’s performance did you like?
Jayne Entwistle did an excellent job. Her voice was well suited to the book and she did a super job of distinguishing the characters by tone and accent.Any additional comments?
I have read this book many times and listened to it as well in the old days when it was available on audio cassette. I was always hopeful that Audible would obtain the several titles written by Barbara Pym and I hope they soon add more. At least "Quartet in Autumn" and "Less than Angels" and "Some Tame Gazelle".At last a Barbara Pym
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This is not a book for those looking for action, romance or high drama, but it is written with an economy and sensitivity worthy of Jane Austen.
A special taste
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Meh...
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Pym has written a cautionary tale for spinsters of any period.
Not a cozy little book
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