Pym's love
Sir: How can Kay Dick profess admiration and affection for the excellent Miss Pyrn, when she cannot even be bothered to read the book which you give her to keep and pay her to review? (Books, 18 August.) 'As a Wren,' writes Mrs Dick. 'she enjoyed jolly times with naval officers . . • then began her sad and unsatisfactory affair with Gordon Glover.' Those of us who have bought our own copies of A Very Private Eye and read them for love of Miss Pym remember that she was not particular- ly jolly as a Wren and that several pages of the book were devoted to her decision to go into the Wrens, after her love affair with Gordon Glover had ended. A fact which It would have been possible to discover by reading the editors' notes in italic type which give a running synopsis of the life of Barbara Pym, and occupy at the most ten pages.
Mary Keen
St Mary's Farm House, Bee nham, Reading, Berks
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