Author Description

When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel written in 1936, Civil to Strangers (originally called Adam and Sandra), three novellas and an autobiographical essay, Finding a Voice, Pym's only written comment on her writing career. Finding a Voice was a transcription of a radio programme Barbara Pym made for the BBC in 1978, part of a series by well-known writers speaking about how they found their own personal writing styles.