No Fond Return of Love (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from brenzi

I've grown used to the inclusion of fine details and minutiae, the seemingly unimportant detritus that turns out to be very important in Barbara Pym's world, this being my fifth Barbara Pym book. They just add to the pleasure of being among the indexers, excellent women, clergy and available men ...

from snash

Barbara Pym does a good job of presenting ordinary folk with all their oddities so that they and their ordinary lives are interesting, even fun. No Fond Return of Love is no exception

from mstrust

Dulcie and Viola meet at a weekend conference for people involved in the peripheral aspects of writing, such as researching and indexing an author's work. Neither really likes the other but circumstances throw them together, and then they find that they share an interest in stalking a mutual acqu...

from pgchuis

This was my least favourite so far. Dulcie read like one of Pym's older characters even though she was not and, despite apparently working as an indexer, did not a stroke of work during the entire novel. I found her feelings for Alwyn unfathomable and inconsistent, and the plot (which consisted o...

from veracite

Another review here on Goodreads calls Dulcie Mainwaring a stalker. There's a fair way between nosey parker, the restrained obsession with which Miss Mainwaring carries out her research into - her indexing of - Aylwin Forbes life, and stalker, which implies an ill intent. Pym's failing is that sh...