All hail the Pymnaissance... a Booker winner is putting Barbara Pym’s tales of mid-life drudgery centre stage

In the 1960s, Barbara Pym’s manuscripts were languishing in her linen cupboard unpublished, until Philip Larkin’s support prompted a late-career revival. As a new stage adaptation of her 1977 novel ‘Quartet in Autumn’ arrives at the Arcola, Katie Rosseinsky explores why Pym’s work is enjoying anothe...

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