Caro is the wife of Dr. Alan Grimstone, a lecturer at a provincial
university in a West Country town in England. She knows her circle
believes that she should be doing more with her life. She is the
mother of a young daughter but relieved to be able to leave the
girl in the care of an au pair. Her one selfless act--reading aloud
to a former missionary at a rest home--is sullied when she allows
her husband to 'borrow' some of the old gentleman's papers in order
to get the better of a colleague. Caro's sister is a social worker
disinclined towards marriage and children, but is she happy?
Despite appearances, Caro is content enough. Until she learns that
that her husband Alan has a wandering eye. What is happiness? The
knowledge that one is loved? Academic renown? Or is it friendship
with eccentric friends and the sight of the first crocuses of
spring or the Virginia creeper in autumn? Barbara Pym completed the
first draft of her satirical "Academic Novel" in 1970, ten years
before her death. It was first published posthumously in 1986,
thanks to her friend and biographer Hazel Holt.
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