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, anthropologist. Through her eyes Barbara Pym examines in her own ironic and individual style the quiet revolution in English village life, combining the rural settings of her earliest novels with the themes and characters of her later works. The result is a compelling portrait of a town that seems to be forgotten by time, but which is unmistakably affected by it. Romance shares the pages with death in this engaging novel that is the culmination of Barbara Pym's acclaimed writing career.
'I could go on reading her for ever' A L Rowse, Punch
'A vivid sense of how we live now' New Statesman
'Her sense of brilliant comedy is a direct inheritance from Jane Austen' Hibernia
'A beautifully written, very delicate comedy' The Times Literary Supplement
- ISBN10 052510450X
- ISBN13 9780525104506
- Publish Date 29 September 1980 (first published 17 July 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 March 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint TarcherPerigee
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 250
- Language English