Few Green Leaves

‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.'' Jilly Cooper

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 recognise as totally familiar. In A Few Green Leaves, her last novel, her heroine is Emma Howick...