No fond return of love

303 pages

English language

Published July 7, 2009 by Windsor.

ISBN:
9781408429815
OCLC Number:
972681371

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4 stars (1 review)

"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."--Publisher description.

3 editions

infuriating characters, amazing book

4 stars

I loved this! I did want to shake just about every single character for one thing or another but also I couldn’t stop reading it. This is much like how I feel about every Barbara Pym I’ve read, and I’m clearly going to need to read more. Extra points for being about indexers and writers.

Subjects

  • Female friendship
  • Fiction
  • Physicians
  • Nieces
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Large type books