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Some tame gazelle, by Barbara Pym

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Some tame gazelle

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by Barbara Pym

This gently humorous picture of village life in mid-century England details the lives of middle-aged sisters Harriet and Belinda Bede, and their relationships with the men and women around them: The melancholy Italian, Count Ricardo Bianco, long in love with Harriet; decayed gentlewoman Edith Liversidge and her housemate, Miss Aspinall; Miss Prior, village seamstress; the deputy librarian, Mr. Mold, who is more than occasionally tipsy; the young curate, Edgar Dunne, whom Harriet mothers; and the longwinded and self-important Archdeacon Henry Hoccleve, whom Belinda has loved-unrequitedly-since college