How to Give a Toast
You’ve been asked to give a toast. Do it well and everyone will love you. Mess it up and you’ll loose the trust and support of everyone in the room. High stakes, high rewards. Sounds like fun, non…
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Writer Barbara Pym's brilliant novels were inspired by the often horrible men she was drawn to
by Paula Byrne (William Collins £25, 686pp) Had Miss Marple been a novelist, she’d have been Barbara Pym. Both possessed a beady-eye for vicars wearing bicycle clips and enjoyed a glass of sherry. Nothing was more exciting than ‘knitting a green jumper’, purchasing a bedspread, attending the parish jumble sale, sewing stockings for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force or hearing the bells announce Evensong on a misty autumn night. Pym was also a shameless snoop. Jilted by future MP Julian A...
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