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Some Tame Gazelle

By: Barbara Pym
Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
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It was odd that Harriet should always have been so fond of curates. They were so immature and always made the same kind of conversation. Now the Archdeacon was altogether different...'Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes nothing better than to make a fuss of new curates, secure in the knowledge that elderly Italian Count Ricardo Bianco will propose to her yet again this year.

Belinda, meanwhile has harboured sober feelings of devotion towards Archdeacon Hochleve for thirty years. Then into their quiet, comfortable lives comes a famous librarian, Nathaniel Mold, and a bishop from Africa, Theodore Grote - who each take to calling on the sisters for rather more unsettling reasons.

©1950 Barbara Pym (P)2012 Magna

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An early novel by the highly gifted Barbara Pym

This is an early work by BP but most of the elements of her later, more masterly, work are here. The village setting with some genteel women and a few churchmen and their joys and limitations, their hopes and disappointments. However, if you are interested and would like to listen to a Pym novel, I suggest one of her later works available on Audio to begin with (perhaps -- A Glass of Blessings), then come back to this one. I hope that eventually Audible will commission recordings of all her works, there are about a dozen novels.

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