num_pages: 320
description: This official biography of Barbara Pym, the writer, describes her upbringing in Oswestry and her life in Oxford. The author talks about the successes as well as the dark years in the writer's life when she was unpublished.
language: English
title: A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym
titlecomplete: A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym
genres: British Literature, Religion, Psychology, Biography Memoir, Biography, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 167
publisher: Plume