A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym - 9781447265399

Name: A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym - 9781447265399
Brand: Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym

A Very Private EyeAn Autobiography in Diaries and Letters\nAuthor(s): Barbara Pym\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom\nImprint: Macmillan Bello\nISBN-13: 9781447265399, 978-1447265399\nSynopsis\nBarbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly Cooper\n\nCould one write a book based on ones 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 writers mind.\n\n 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 nove.