The Sweet Dove Died Av Barbara Pym

<p><b>‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure’ – Jilly Cooper, author of <i>Rivals</i></b><br><br><i><b>‘Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.’</b></i><br><br>The lives of Humphrey and James Boyce, a seasoned antique dealer and his good-looking nephew, are changed for ever when the elegant Leonora Eyre glides into their bustling Bond Street salesroom, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. An impassioned bid lands her a coveted book and two equally enthralled companions.<br><br>As the enigmatic Leonora navigates these relationships, others are drawn into her mysterious and intoxicating web, and a world of human complexities and simmering desires is exposed.<br><br><b>Pym brings her unique voice to this darkly comic exploration of love, loneliness and jealousy.</b><br><br><b>‘I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym’ – Richard Osman, author of <i>The Thursday Murder Club</i><br><br>‘Faultless’ – <i>The </i><i>Guardian</i><br><br>‘Her characters are all meticulously impaled on the delicate pins of a wit that is as scrupulous as it is deadly’ – <i>The Observer</i><br><br>‘A coldly funny book’ – <i>The </i><i>Sunday Telegraph</i><br><br>‘The critics who have recently insisted on Miss Pym’s too long neglected gifts have not been wrong’ – <i>Financial Times</i></b></p>