Sisters by a River: A Virago Modern Classic
Author(s): Barbara Comyns; Barbara Trapido (Introduction by)
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.
General Information
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Virago Press
- : 0.152
- : 01 July 2013
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 July 2013
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Barbara Comyns; Barbara Trapido (Introduction by)
- : Paperback
- : 1307
- : English
- : 823.9/14
- : 208
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Barbara Comyns (1909-92) was born in Bidford-on-Avon in Warwickshire. She was an artist and writer, worked in advertising, dealt in old cars and antiques, bred poodles and developed property. She was twice married, and she and her second husband lived in Spain for eighteen years, returning to the UK in the early 1970s. She is the author of eleven books, including Sisters by a River (1947), Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (1950), The Vet's Daughter (1959), The Skin Chairs (1962) and A Touch of Mistletoe (1967). She died in Shropshire in 1992
