'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other
writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly
Cooper Set in St Basil's, an undistinguished North London parish,
An Unsuitable Attachment is indeed full of the high comedy for
which Barbara Pym is famed. There is Mark Ainger, the vicar, who
introduces his sermons with remarks like 'Those of you who are
familiar with the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.' His wife
Sophia with her cat, 'I feel sometimes that I can't reach Faustina
as I've reached other cats.' Rupert Stonebird, anthropologist and
eligible bachelor. The well-bred Ianthe Broome who works at the
library and forms an unsuitable attachment with a young man there.
The sharp-tongue Mervyn Cantrell, chief librarian, who complains
that 'when books have things spilt on them it is always bottled
sauce or gravy of the thickest and most repellent kind rather than
something utterly exquisite and delicious.' There is also Daisy
Pettigrew, the vet's sister, another obsessional cat person, and
Sister Dew who bears a strong resemblance to Sister Blatt in
Excellent Women.
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