Crampton Hodnet Author:Barbara Pym Crampton Hodnet, a novel of Oxford, entertains and amuses in a way few books do. Miss Doggett, the upright spinster who entertains hapless Oxford youths at tea parties in her dark North Oxford home; Jessie Morrow, her companion; their curate lodger, the vicar and his wife, Miss Doggett's cousin, the academic Francis Cleveland, his v... more »ague but charming wife Margaret, Francis's brilliant student, Barbara Bird, and many others enrich the cast of an enchanting novel.« less
If you like Jane Austen, then I am pretty sure you will love 20th Century British Author Barbara Pym! This is a wonderful novel set in the British countryside, complete with the local Vicar!