![]() ![]() ![]() Once there, she is amazed by the beauty, health, and vitality of the students, and by her old friend’s commitment to and joy in her work. Miss Hodge is now the head of a women’s physical education college, Leys, which trains its students to be PE teachers or physiotherapists (the two qualifications, in 1946, seem to have been interchangeable). When she gets a letter from an old schoolfriend, Henrietta Hodge, asking her to come and give a lecture, she welcomes the opportunity to get away from London for a night. Being lauded in literary circles as a psychological expert is fun for a while, but it also becomes overwhelming. ![]() At the start of the novel, she has recently found success in writing a short non-fiction book on psychology, which unexpectedly became a runaway bestseller. The eponymous Lucy Pym is a former teacher. ![]()
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