When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. Thiss volume brings us one complete novel, CIVIL TO STRANGERS, and sections of three others which have been meticulously edited by Hazel Holt to form self-standing novellas that rank with the best of Barbara Pym's work. A final bonus is the inclusion of four short stories and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', the author's only written commentary on her writing career. The title novel is the story of Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon and her self-absorbed writer husband Adam, a young couple from the village of Up Callow in Shropshire. Both the village and Cassandra's marriage are thrown into upheaval when a mysterious Hungarian arrives.
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