'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other
writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly
Cooper '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 this much
loved novelist to form a continuous narrative, is indeed a unique
autobiography, providing a privileged insight into a writer's mind.
Philip Larkin wrote that Barbara Pym had 'a unique eye and ear for
the small poignancies of everyday life'. Her autobiography amply
demonstrates this, as it traces her life from exuberant times at
Oxford in the thirties, through the war when, scarred by an unhappy
love affair, she joined the WRNS, to the published novelist of the
fifties. It also deals with the long period when her novels were
out of fashion and no one would publish them, her rediscovering in
1977, and the triumphant success of her last few years. It is now
possible to describe a place, situation or person as 'very Barbara
Pym'. A Very Private Eye, at once funny and moving, shows the
variety and depth of her own story.
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