A Very Private Eye
05 October 2023Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure’ - Jilly Cooper
‘I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym’ - Richard Osman
‘Could one write a book based on one’s diaries over thirty years? I certainly have enough material,’ wrote
Barbara Pym. This book, selected from the diaries, notebooks and letters of...
Details
05 October 2023432 pages
9781529091953Imprint: Pan
Reviews
I’d sooner a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane AustenPhilip Larkin
Barbara Pym’s unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels are for me the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years . . . SpectacularThe Sunday Times
Barbara Pym has a sharp eye for the exact nuances of social
The Times
behaviour
An alert miniaturist . . . Her novels have a distinctive flavour, as instantly recognisable as Lapsang teaThe Daily Telegraph
