Quartet in Autumn

<p><b>With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith, author of </b><b>The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.</b><br><br><i>One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.<br><br></i>In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem – loneliness.<br><br>Lovingly and with delightful humour, Barbara Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements, and – perhaps most keenly felt – their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them. <br><br><b>Deliciously, blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism, <i>Quartet in Autumn</i> shows Barbara Pym's sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. Its world is both extraordinary and familiar, revealing the eccentricities of everyday life.</b></p>