“Oh, happy day! One of Barbara Pym’s subtly comic novels has finally been produced in an audio version. Pym has been called heir to Jane Austen, her observations possessing a similar undercurrent of wicked irony…Jayne Entwistle delivers Mildred’s story in a proper, well-brought-up English voice—reticent, obliging, sometimes wondering—making this production a perfect joy.” —Washington Post (audio review)
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- Excellent Women
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By Barbara Pym
Read by Jayne Entwistle
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Release Date: 3/15/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Excellent Women is one of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies. This is Barbara Pym’s world at its funniest.
Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those excellent women, the smart, supportive, repressed women whom men take for granted.
As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors—anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door—the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.
- Excellent Women
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By Barbara Pym
Read by Jayne Entwistle
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Release Date: 3/15/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- After We Fall
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Read by Jayne Entwistle
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Release Date: 6/01/15
Formats: Digital Audy
A plane crash rocks a sleepy little town. When a murder follows on tragedy's heels and dark secrets are unearthed, no one will be left standing.
What happened the night Flight 2940 crashed? And is the shocking murder of a policeman's daughter somehow related to this tragic event—or is it simply a devastating coincidence? Four people who have never met but are indelibly linked by these disasters will be forced to reveal the closely guarded secrets that unlock the answers to these questions. But once the truth is exposed, it may cause even more destruction.
In After We Fall, Emma Kavanagh deftly weaves together the stories of those who lost something of themselves in a tragic incident and explores how swiftly everything we know can come crashing down.
- After We Fall
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Read by Jayne Entwistle
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Release Date: 6/01/15
Formats: Digital Audy