The Testing of Barbara Pym, a companion volume to The Making of Barbara Pym (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), completes a comprehensive analysis of Pym’s novels and

Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Ceci

This book analyses Barbara Pym’s published and unpublished work through a new image, that of the troublesome woman. It details the political nature of her wor

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1977 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "A spare masterpiece of loneliness in retirement" Telegraph In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in t