- Clergy, Country life, Fiction, Man-woman relationships
Harriet and Belinda Bede are middle-aged sisters who have only two things in common: their spinsterhood and their love for each other. Harriet is a bubbly, chubby coquette. Belinda is a meek, thin romantic who, since her youth, has nurtured an unrequited love for the town's vicar.
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Classical in form, warm, intimate and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Barbara Pym
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Plume, J. Cape
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781559212649
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