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Reading guide: Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

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By Barbara Pym
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Barbara Pym © Mayotte Magnus Barbara Pym © Mayotte Magnus Barbara Pym’s compassionate and funny novel follows four people in late middle-age with different eccentricities but the same problem: loneliness Written by Grace Sansom Publication date and time: Published May 1, 2026 Quartet in Autumn follows four ageing colleagues as they approach retirement: Letty, Marcia, Edwin and Norman. They are all clerks of some kind, working in the same unspecified London office.
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Samantha Harvey on Quartet in Autumn: ‘It’s a crackling, funny novel and joyful to adapt’

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By Barbara Pym, Samantha Harvey
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The Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital reveals why she’s always wanted to write a play, and what drew her to adapt Barbara Pym’s Quartet in Autumn for the stage Written by Samantha Harvey Publication date and time: Published May 1, 2026 I’d wanted to write a play for a long time. When I write, I enjoy trapping my characters somewhere – inside a confession box, in a letter from which the letter-writer never escapes, in the prison of a fragmenting mind, in a spacecraft.
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By Barbara Pym
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To celebrate our Monthly Spotlight for May, Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym, we’re offering you the chance to win a copy of the book and a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag. Quartet in Autumn follows four ageing colleagues as they approach retirement. Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia’s chief point of contact, at least until the two women retire, is that they work in the same office.
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