{"product_id":"9780349016146","title":"Civil To Strangers","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Pym, Barbara, Holt, Hazel \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/06\/2022,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780349016146,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCED BY HAZEL HOLT'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip LarkinWhen Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, Civil to Strangers, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', Pym's only written comment on her writing career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Civil to Strangers, the lives of a young couple, Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon and her self-absorbed writer husband Adam, are thrown into upheaval when a mysterious Hungarian arrives in their village.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A sublime social comedy . . . It exists inside the Pym Eden of safety, silliness and a kind of subdued hilarity. Look out for one of her best curates - the starchy, spinster-dodging Mr Paladin - and a typically deliciously insensitive vicar' KATE SAUNDERS, THE TIMES'Brilliant, hilarious, poignant and so very, very English' TIME\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40481226326060,"sku":"9780349016146","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780349016146.jpg?v=1759672192","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780349016146","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}