No Fond Return of Love - Tapa dura

"With sheer joy I read Barbara Pym's . . . "No Fond Return of Love."" --Mary Gordon ." . . comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself." --Shirley Hazzard "No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure." --Jilly Cooper "A splendid, humorous writer." --John Betjeman

With sheer joy I read Barbara Pym s . . . "No Fond Return of Love." Mary Gordon . . . comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself. Shirley Hazzard No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure. Jilly Cooper A splendid, humorous writer. John Betjeman"

With sheer joy I read Barbara Pym s . . . No Fond Return of Love. Mary Gordon . . . comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself. Shirley Hazzard No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure. Jilly Cooper A splendid, humorous writer. John Betjeman"

Three lonely people come together in this poignant and witty novel of thwarted dreams, scandalous secrets, and star-crossed romance
After being jilted by her fiance, Dulcie Mainwaring despairs of ever finding true love. For a distraction, she goes to a publishing conference, where she meets Viola Dace, a dramatic woman who refuses to live without romance, as well as Aylwin Forbes, an editor whom Viola adores. The fact that Aylwin is married doesn t stop Viola. When her amorous pursuit prompts Aylwin s wife to leave him, the academic heartthrob is wide open to Viola s romantic attentions. That is, until Dulcie s eighteen-year-old niece moves in with Viola, and the young girl soon catches Aylwin s roving eye.Set in London in the early 1960s, No Fond Return of Love is a delightful comedy of manners that comes full circle as Dulcie discovers a love as unexpected as it is liberating."