Of all the books that have been written about Barbara (and how she would have smiled at some of them) this is the one with which I am most in sympathy.
Original, controversial, academic, readable, serious, light-hearted, sensible, charming – there is no end to the words that could be applied to Felicity and Barbara Pym. The framework, letters to a new student of English Literature, allows Harrison Solow to range widely over many topics and, in the process of examining the work of one author in detail, take her readers on a leisurely ramble though English literature during which she shares with them the treasures of a cultured mind.
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