Barbara Comyns
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Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried" begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from maudlin, despite the ostensibly harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one when she marries fellow artist Charles, and she seems to have nearly as much affection for her pet newt as she does for her husband. Her housekeeping knowledge is lacking (everything she cooks tastes of soap) and she attributes...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books-Virago Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Autobiographical novel of the life of an impoverished upper-middle class British girl from the 1920's through the 1960's. The heroine endures many hardships but bounces on, finding joy in art, friends and family--generally considering her life a great success.
Author
Series
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"On the banks of the River Avon, five sisters are born. The seasons come and go, the girls take their lessons under the ash tree, and always there is the sound of water swirling through the weir. Then, unexpectedly, an air of decay descends upon the house: ivy grows unchecked over the windows, angry shouts split the summer air, the milk sours in the larder and their father takes out his gun. Tragedy strikes the family, and before long the furniture...
