Stevie Smith - Novel On Yellow Paper

Stevie’s alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down – on yellow office paper – her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church, shattering conventions in their wake. 

'Stevie Smith captures, with exquisite stillness and delicacy, all the pains of love'. The Guardian