No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
Synopsis
Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself, however ridiculous it may be, is falling, just a little, for Aylwin. Once life's little humiliations are played out, maybe love will be returned, and fondly, after all..
This is the first Barbara Pym book that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I did not want the book to end as I had got to know the charcters so well, i felt that I actually knew them. I am certainly going to read Quartet in Autumn.
10/10