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A writer from the age of sixteen, Barbara Pym has been acclaimed as ‘the most underrated writer of the century’ (Philip Larkin). Pym’s substantial reputation evolved through the publication of six novels from 1950 to 1961, then resumed in 1977 with the publication of Quartet in Autumn and three other novels. She died in 1980.Barbara Pym’s unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels . . . are for me the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past 75 years . . . spectacular
The Sunday Times
Barbara Pym has a sharp eye for the exact nuances of social behaviour
The Times
The wit and style of a twentieth-century Jane Austen
Harper's & Queen
Very funny and keenly observant of the ridiculous as well as the pathetic in humanity
Financial Times
A spare masterpiece of loneliness in retirement
The Telegraph
<i>Quartet in Autumn </i>is immeasurably her finest work of fiction
Evening Standard
An alert miniaturist . . . her novels have a distinctive flavour, as instantly recognizable as lapsang tea
The Daily Telegraph
No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure
- Jilly Cooper,