sentences:  The book was well-received and has remained one of her greatest successes.The "Church Times" compared Pym's writing to Jane Austen while John Betjeman reviewed the novel for "The Daily Telegraph", writing that "Barbara Pym is a splendidly humorous writer" .The novel sold 6,577 copies in Great Britain by the end of the 1950s, far outselling her other early novels, although by no means a bestseller.