<p><b>Owing a debt to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pym’s <i>An Unsuitable Attachment</i> is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called ‘the most underrated novelist of the century’.</b><br><br><b>‘I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym’ – Richard Osman, author of </b><i><b>The Thursday Murder Club</b></i><br><br><i>‘The day comes in the life of every single man living alone when he must give a dinner party.’</i><br><br>The parish of St Basil, on the fringes of North Kensington, is all of a flutter due to the arrival of Rupert Stonebird, a most eligible bachelor, in the neighbourhood. The local matchmakers are sure he will make a suitable husband for the vicar’s wife’s sister, Penny, or perhaps for local librarian Ianthe Broome?<br><br>But Iant
