Title: An academic question
Description: A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory. In a provincial university town Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers as a reader to a blind, esteemed anthropologist, Alan seizes the opportunity to steal his papers research that could both advance his reputation while refuting the findings of a respected colleague.
Subjects: Married women, Fiction, Fiction, general
Places: England