Description
A first edition, first printing of Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym, published by Macmillan, London in 1977. A near fine book without inscriptions, with some spotting to the top and fore-edge of the text block and light spotting to prelims. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with rubbing to extremities and fading to the spine.
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym follows four ageing office workers—Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia—as they approach retirement in 1970s London. Quietly observant and often darkly funny, the novel explores loneliness, routine, friendship, ageing and the small rituals that give life meaning. Pym treats her characters with compassion while never ignoring their eccentricities or disappointments. Beneath its restrained surface lies a moving meditation on isolation, human connection and the adjustments required by later life.
