Discoveries: Clio Barnard, Barbara Pym, and more Films, novels and poetry provide stimulus for a wide-ranging day in which we share works that have proved exciting, pleasurable and thought-provoking.
The beauty and tensions of Bradford life are exposed in Clio Barnard’s Ali and Ava (2021). Barbara Pym’s works seem gentle but novels such as Excellent Women (1952) are full of sharp insight, humour and compassion.
