Anita Brookner

A singular voice

Barbara Pym, now thought of as a reliable and popular novelist of the 1950s and 1960s, has almost disappeared from sight, overshadowed by the more explicit and confessional writers we are accustomed to reading today.

  • Civil to Strangers and Other Writings

    Barbara Pym, with an introduction by Hazel Holt

    Virago, pp. 400

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