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The Sweet Dove Died

The Sweet Dove Died

Pym, Barbara
Boyt, Susie

Paperback

HumorGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1681379759
ISBN13: 9781681379753
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.80 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
An acidly funny novel about a woman who falls for a much younger man by one of Britain's great writers of social comedy, now back in print.

A lesser-known, darker sister to Barbara Pym's Excellent Women.

The Sweet Dove Died is one of Barbara Pym's last novels, in which her work took on a new, keen edge. It is about a woman's attachment to a man much younger than herself. Beautiful and self-absorbed, Leonora Eyre has a passion for collecting Victorian objects and is coolly indifferent towards everything outside of her fastidious, elegant existence. When she is courted by Humphrey, a widowed antiques dealer, she disdains his advances, preferring rather the attentions of his twenty-four-year-old nephew, James.

Leonora's possession of James is challenged, however, first by Phoebe, a bookish young woman his own age, and then by the suave and seductive Ned, a visiting American professor with whom James quickly becomes infatuated. Pym's sharp eye for comedy and shrewd observation of English manners are on full display in this finely wrought novel of love, loss, and all the hopes and disappointments that befall the human heart.

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