In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suf
fer the same problem - loneliness. With delightful humour, Pym takes us through
their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judge
ments; and, perhaps most keenly felt, their worries about having somehow missed
out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them. Deliciously, blackly funny
and full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn shows Barbara Pym's sensitive
artistry at its most sparkling.
