Civil To Strangers

This collection includes an early novel, three novellas, and an autobiographical essay by Barbara Pym, showcasing her brilliant social comedy and insightful writing. Pym's unpublished material provides a unique insight into her writing career.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 02 June 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

INTRODUCED BY HAZEL HOLT

I am a huge fan of Barbara Pym, Richard Osman, Philip Larkin, and many others. When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This 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

Weight: 314g
Dimension: 127 x 196 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349016146