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An Academic Question
- Length
- 4 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group; 2022
- Catalogue Number
- 19097
- Synopsis
In a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers to read to a blind, esteemed anthropologist in a nursing home, Alan seizes the opportunity to steal his papers - research that could both advance his reputation while refuting the findings of a respected colleague.
A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory.