A Few Green Leaves av Barbara Pym

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<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 The Rutshire Chronicles series</b><br><br><b>‘I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym’ - Richard Osman, author of <i>The Thrusday Murder Club </i></b><br><br>Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognize as totally familiar. In <i>A Few Green Leaves, </i>her last novel, her heroine is Emma Howick, anthropologist. Through her eyes Barbara Pym examines in her own ironic and individual style the quiet revolution in English village life, combining the rural settings of her earliest novels with the themes and characters of her later works. The result is a compelling portrait of a town that seems to b