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message 1: by Lauren (last edited Aug 26, 2022 04:48PM) (new) - rated it 5 stars

Lauren | 2167 comments I've scanned the cover of ISBN 9780452269200 (please make sure to use the largest size image): https://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/...

Additionally:
- The page count is 254, not 256
- Please update the book description as follows (transcribed from the back of the book; note paragraph break):
Dulcie Mainwaring is one of those “excellent women” who is always helping others and never looking out for herself—especially in the realms of love. She has a fondness for Ovaltine and a maxim to go with it: “Life's problems are often erased by hot milky drinks.” At a “learned conference” Dulcie meets a fellow researcher with an air of some refinement—Viola Dace—and the alluring, absentminded Professor Aylwin Forbes. Dulcie subsequently becomes Viola's landlady, as well as guardian and housekeeper for her own young niece Laurel. But Laurel soon becomes the object of Aylwin's amorous designs, and Viola's early passion for Aylwin fades. The novel climaxes in a delicate tangling of schemes and unfulfilled dreams when Dulcie and Viola take a trip to the West Country to discover the hidden secrets of the Forbes clan and a mysterious castle on the hill.

As in all of Pym's novels, the prose is honed to a wry, deadpan perfection. Life's little humiliations are finally put into their place, and things do fall out correctly; love is returned, and fondly, after all.


Thank you!


message 2: by Martin (new)

Martin | 35569 comments Done.


Lauren | 2167 comments Martin wrote: "Done."

Thank you!


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