{"product_id":"jane-and-prudence-paperback","title":"Jane and Prudence - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Pym\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eExcellent Women\u003c\/i\u003e explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life--a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the country, is married to a vicar, has a daughter she adores, and lives a very proper life in a very proper English parish. Prudence, a year shy of thirty, lives in London, has an office job, and is self-sufficient and fiercely independent--until Jane decides her friend should be married. Jane has the perfect husband in mind for her former pupil: a widower named Fabian Driver. \u003cbr\u003e But there are other women vying for Fabian's attention. And Pru is nursing her own highly inappropriate desire for her older, married, and seemingly oblivious employer, Dr. Grampian. What follows is a witty, delightful, trenchant story of manners, morals, family, and female bonding that redefines the social novel for a new generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Pym (1913-1980) was a bestselling and award-winning English novelist. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eSome Tame Gazelle \u003c\/i\u003e(1950), launched her career as a writer beloved for her social comedies of class and manners. Pym is the only author to be named twice in a \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiterary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e list of \"the most underrated novelists of the century.\" She produced thirteen novels, the last three published posthumously. Her 1977 novel \u003ci\u003eQuartet in Autumn \u003c\/i\u003ewas shortlisted for the Booker Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 7.93 x 6.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53463921852723,"sku":"9781480408067","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/fPYaug2iWp9781480408067.webp?v=1781577038","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/jane-and-prudence-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}