Barbara Pym

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym is Paula’s acclaimed biography of the novelist often seen as the twentieth century’s Jane Austen. A Sunday Times Top Twenty Bestseller, it garnered rave reviews: “Both hilarious and heartbreaking” (Daily Telegraph)’ “Wonderfully attentive and touching … a joy” (Observer); “rewards reading and rereading” (The Spectator); “Captures Barbara and her writing so miraculously” (Jilly Cooper). It was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Best Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian and Daily Telegraph and for Waterstones.

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