“She had come to realize that the position of an unmarried, unattached, ageing woman is of not interest whatever to the writer of modern fiction.”

A review of “Quartet in Autumn” in 100 words by Catherine Stover

What should a moderately successful novelist, who didn’t engage readers during the social revolutions of the late 1960s and early 1970s, do to stage a come back? Explore trends? Update her plots? Become provocative? Barbara Pym declined these … Read More