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idlebee23 's review for:
Less Than Angels
by Barbara Pym
More people should be reading Pym! I just heard of her this year and am now eager to read everything she wrote. Her plots are about small romances and domestic struggles and always seem to have a few church ladies serving tea. Yet, her character studies are both wry and cutting, and her observations about contemporary mores are often spot on and sometimes heartbreaking. It's as if Jane Austen was writing in the 1950s. Read this novel and you'll get a sense of why Philip Larkin nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century.