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Crampton Hodnet
- Author
- Barbara Pym
- Narrator
- Kristin Atherton
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 2 June 2022
- Run Time
- 7 hours 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN
'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKIN
Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. However, Anthea's father, an Oxford don, is carrying on in the most unseemly fashion with a student - they have been spotted together at the British museum! But the only liaison Miss Doggett isn't aware of is taking place under her very own roof: the lodger has proposed to her paid companion Miss Morrow. She wouldn't approve of that at all.
'Brilliant, hilarious and so very, very English' DAILY MAIL
'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPER
Critics Review
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An entertainment that is funny, poignant, observant and truthful
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Pym at her absolute funniest
Daily Mail
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The rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination as it pauses for a moment in perfect understanding of a character. That sympathy stretches beyond the horizon of comedy
Time
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Brilliant, hilarious and so very, very English
Daily Mail
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I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen
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Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life
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My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy
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I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym
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Details
- Author
- Barbara Pym
- Narrator
- Kristin Atherton
- Duration
- 7 hours 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 June 2022
- ISBN
- 9781405554039
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKINFormidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. However, Anthea's father, an Oxford don, is carrying on in the most unseemly fashion with a student - they have been spotted together at the British museum! But the only liaison Miss Doggett isn't aware of is taking place under her very own roof: the lodger has proposed to her paid companion Miss Morrow. She wouldn't approve of that at all.'Brilliant, hilarious and so very, very English' DAILY MAIL'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPER
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