{"product_id":"9781529091892","title":"The Sweet Dove Died","description":"\u003cp\u003e`Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure' - Jilly Cooper, author of The Thursday Murder Club`Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.'The lives of Humphrey and James Boyce, a seasoned antique dealer and his good-looking nephew, are changed for ever when the elegant Leonora Eyre glides into their bustling Bond Street salesroom, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. An impassioned bid lands her a coveted book and two equally enthralled companions.   As the enigmatic Leonora navigates these relationships, others are drawn into her mysterious and intoxicating web, and a world of human complexities and simmering desires is exposed.   Pym brings her unique voice to this darkly comic exploration of love, loneliness and jealousy.   `I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' - Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murder Club`Faultless' -The Guardian`Her characters are all meticulously impaled on the delicate pins of a wit that is as scrupulous as it is deadly' - The Observer`A coldly funny book' -The Sunday Telegraph`Highly distinctive . . . The critics who have recently insisted on Miss Pym's too long neglected gifts have not been wrong' - Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45465875513565,"sku":"9781529091892","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781529091892.jpg?v=1720102400","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781529091892","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}