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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne (Live Stream Event)

Acclaimed by Philip Larkin as the era’s own Jane Austen, this engrossing and shrewdly observed biography of Barbara Pym is the first to make full use of the Pym archives and sheds dramatic new light on both Pym the woman and the writer.

She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym in her diaries. Sandra in seduction mode. Pymska at her most sophisticated. She became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, with an unparalleled ability for revealing the inner workings of domestic life. But who was Barbara Pym and why is this English writer – one of the great chroniclers of the human heart – not more widely known?

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym brings Pym back to centre-stage as one of the great English novelists: a courageous writer and brave woman with a hilarious sense of fun.

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19/04/2021

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