About the Book: The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously JILLY COOPER Picked as a
Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer She
was Pym to friends. Miss Pym in her diaries. Sandra in seduction mode. Pymska at
her most sophisticated. English novelist Barbara Pyms career was defined, in
many senses, by rejection. Her first novel Some Tame Gazelle was turned down by
every publisher she sent it out in 1935, finally published only fifteen years
later. Though she picked up a publisher from there and received modest praise,
the publishing