Press Reviews

• Lord David Cecil

  One of the finest examples of high comedy

• Marghanita Laski

  Observer

  I don't think I've ever before recommended a novel as one that everybody will enjoy and yet - even with a certain assurance - I'm prepared to vouch for Excellent Women

• Jilly Cooper

  I pick up her books with joy, as though I were meeting an old, dear friend who comforts me, extends my vision and makes me roar with laughter

• Richard Osman

  Guardian

  I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym

• The Times

  Why shouldn't the lives of cardigan-wearing spinsters and fussy confirmed bachelors be the engines of some of the finest comic writing in English? Not only was Pym a comic genius but she was ever so wise

• Anne Tyler

  Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life

• Alexander McCall Smith

  One of the most endearingly amusing English novels of the twentieth century