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Barbara Comyns
Bøger af Barbara Comyns
'Sisters By A River'
'Tragic, comic and completely bonkers all in one, I'd go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius' LUCY SCHOLES, GUARDIAN 'It is hard not to believe that Barbara Comyns's own adventures are entangled in her fiction' JA
'The Vet's Daughter'
INTRODUCED BY JANE GARDAM 'A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities' SARAH WATERS 'It projects its fantastic story with a tangible realness . . . A wonderful and or
'The Vet's Daughter'
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
'Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead'
"Comyns' novel is deranged in ways that shouldn't be disclosed." --Ben Marcus This is 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, "qu
'Our Spoons Came from Woolworths'
"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