{"product_id":"9780349016146","title":"Civil To Strangers - Hazel Holt","description":"\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a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip LarkinWhen Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material.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.   In 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.   '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":"Hazel Holt","offers":[{"title":"400 pages \/ 02\/06\/2022 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56966328025463,"sku":"9780349016146","price":9.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780349016146_47ff74d5-4379-47d4-91a8-c7be1501830d.jpg?v=1775129534","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780349016146","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}