INTRODUCED BY HAZEL HOLT

''I''m a huge fan of Barbara Pym'' Richard Osman

''I''d sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen'' Philip Larkin

When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished materialThis volume contains an early novel, Civil to Strangers, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, ''Finding a Voice'', Pym''s only written comment on her writing career.

In Civil to Strangers, the lives of a young couple, Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon and her self-absorbed writer husband Adam, are thrown into upheaval when a mysterious Hungarian arrives in their village.

''A sublime social comedy . . It exists inside the Pym Eden of safety, silliness and a kind of subdued hilarity. Look out for one of her best curates - the starchy, spinster-dodging Mr Paladin - and a typically deliciously insensitive vicar'' KATE SAUNDERS, THE TIMES

''Brilliant, hilarious, poignant and so very, very English'' TIME



Format Häftad Omfång 400 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Little, Brown Book Group Utgivningsdatum 2022-06-02 ISBN 9780349016146