# Civil To Strangers

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- Authors: [Barbara Pym](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-pym)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-07-07

## Description

INTRODUCED 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new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material.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

## Editions

### Civil To Strangers

- Publisher: little_brown_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0555-404-6
- Published: 2022-06-02
- Language: en_GB

### Civil To Strangers

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-03-4901-614-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2022-06-02
- Language: en_GB

### Civil To Strangers

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-722-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-07-07
- Language: en_GB

### Civil To Strangers

- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4812-810-5
- Published: 2011-07-07
- Language: en_GB