Jun 7, 2010
Barbara Pym is one of my favorite authors. Even though her novels are primarily set in rural English villages in the mid-twentieth century, they are still relevant today with their social observations and comic phrasing. Pym always wrote about what she knew. She lived in London during her working life, then retired to live with her sister in an Oxfordshire village. Her life there consisted of church, gardening, local history and country walks. A Few Green Leaves, which was completed shortly before her death, is an account of the changes in contemporary village life, as seen through the eyes of