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    Some Tame Gazelle: A Novel
    Some Tame Gazelle: A Novel
    Some Tame Gazelle: A Novel
    Audiobook7 hours

    Some Tame Gazelle: A Novel

    Written by Barbara Pym

    Narrated by Mary Sarah

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    Belinda and Harriet Bede live together in a small English village. Shy, sensible Belinda has been secretly in love with Henry Hoccleve-the poetry-spouting, married archdeacon of their church-for thirty years. Belinda's much more confident, forthright younger sister Harriet, meanwhile, is ardently pursued by Count Ricardo Bianco. Although she has turned down every marriageable man who proposes, Harriet still welcomes any new curate with dinner parties and flirtatious conversation. And one of the newest arrivals, the reverend Edgar Donne, has everyone talking.

    A warm, affectionate depiction of a postwar English village, Some Tame Gazelle perfectly captures the quotidian details that make up everyday life. With its vibrant supporting cast, it's also a poignant story of unrequited love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 30, 2020
    ISBN9781705211045
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    Barbara Pym

    A writer from the age of sixteen, Barbara Pym has been acclaimed as ‘the most underrated writer of the century’ (Philip Larkin). Pym’s substantial reputation evolved through the publication of six novels from 1950 to 1961, then resumed in 1977 with the publication of Quartet in Autumn and three other novels. She died in 1980.

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    • 5/5
      Barbara Pym’s comic genius is always a joy *** but the reader here is dreadful and the audio editing unbearably sloppy (mistakes& repeats of botched lines abound). Help! Can you please find or commission a new version…??
    • 2/5
      The narrator needs to learn middle-class British English. Or quit.