5/11/2023 0 Comments Perdita by Paula Byrne![]() ![]() ![]() Paula Byrne's new biography is the first to make full use of Barbara Pym's archive. Diaries, notes, letters, stories and more than a dozen novels - which as Byrne shows more often than not reflected the themes of Pym's own experience: worlds of spinster sisters and academics in unrequited love, of powerful intimacies that pulled together seemingly humble lives. ![]() She made a career on the Home Front as a single working girl in London's bedsit land. She spent time in Nazi Germany, falling for a man who was close to Hitler. ![]() She attended Oxford in the thirties when women were the minority. But who was Barbara Pym and why was the life of this English writer - one of the greatest chroniclers of the human heart - so defined by rejection, both in her writing and in love? Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observerīook Synopsis 'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPERīarbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era's own Jane Austen. About the Book 'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER ![]()
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