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A Touch of Mistletoe by Barbara Comyns
Category: Fiction
'Our mother rather lost interest in us after the thirst got hold of her and, although our grandfather was vaguely fond of us, he certainly wasn't interested.'
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
Category: Fiction
I told Helen my story and she went home and cried. So begins "Our Spoons Came from Woolworth s." But Barbara Comyns s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and naive when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of ...Show more
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Maggie O'Farrell (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried." So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and na ve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of he ...Show more
Sisters by a River: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Barbara Trapido (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This novel is told through the eyes (and spelling) of a young girl in a vivid and funny evocation of the author's own extraordinary childhood.
The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns
Category: Fiction
Based on Grimm's fairy tale of the same name, The Juniper Tree is ahaunting and beautifully written fable by the acclaimed author ofThe Vet's Daughter.In their idyllic garden, Gertrude and Bernard forge a perfecttriangle of friendship with Bella, the scarred mother of an illegitimatechild. Then Gertrude ...Show more
The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns
Category: Fiction
In their idyllic garden, Gertrude and Bernard forge a perfect triangle of friendship with Bella, the scarred mother of an illegitimate child. Then Gertrude conceives the child which has long eluded her, and the spell breaks into foreboding, menace and madness.
The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Jane Gardam (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes u ...Show more
Vet's Daughter by COMYNS BARBARA
Category: Fiction
The daughter of a bullying veterinary surgeon, Alice Rowlands lives in the oppressive world of Edwardian south London. In her own vivid uneducated words, she here relates the story of her girlhood and the growth of her fatal occult powers.
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
Category: Fiction
A novel that starts with a village flood and ends with a mysterious virus - a visionary Corona novel originally published in 1954 and now a modern classic.
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A twisted hilarious satire about an English village struck by a mysterious epidemic.The story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, "quacking their approval" as they sail around the room. "What about my rose b ...Show more
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