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In the small university town of Caro Grimstone, Barbara Pym presents a comic yet keen observation of academic life. A dissatisfied faculty wife finds herself unwillingly dragged into her husband Alan’s schemes, as he seeks to exploit a blind anthropologist’s work. Amid whispered ambitions and questionable ethics, Pym delivers a witty portrait of married women navigating academic expectations and personal agency.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Barbara Pym
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