Civil to Strangers

Pym, Barbara

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When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material.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 commentary on her writing career.

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Publish Date: 02/06/2022

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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When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material.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

Additional information

Weight 320 g
Dimensions 196 × 126 × 30 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

400

Language

English

Edition

Omnibus ed

Dewey

823.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K