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    Sisters By A River: A Virago Modern Classic

    Barbara Comyns

    Barbara Comyns’ classic first novel weaves a vivid, funny tale - told in the unique style of her young narrator - of a chaotic and ultimately tragic childhood on the…

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    Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

    Barbara Comyns

    It’s the height of summer, and in this tiny Warwickshire village, all is not well. Ducks swim through the drawing-room windows, Ebin Willoweed rows his daughters round the submerged garden…

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    Barbara Comyns

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    This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman…

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    The Vet’s Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic

    Barbara Comyns

    Barbara Comyns’ witty and touching classic The Vet’s Daughter tells the story of Alice, a young woman from Edwardian south London who is gripped by strange and mysterious powers.

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    The House of Dolls

    Barbara Comyns

    A group of elderly woman set up a bordello for gentle folk. One of Comyn’s typically unsettling comedies of failed relationships, precarious existence and an uncomfortable observation of modern life.

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    Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

    Barbara Comyns

    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.

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    Our Spoons Came From Woolworths: A Virago Modern Classic

    Barbara Comyns

    Barbara Comyns’ delightful classic novel set in bohemian 1930s London, with a new introduction by Maggie O'Farrell.

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    The Juniper Tree

    Barbara Comyns,Sadie Stein

    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…

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    Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

    Barbara Comyns

    Marry in haste, repent at leisure. Sophia is twenty-one years old, carries a newt – Great Warty – around in her pocket and marries – in haste – a young…

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    The Vet’s Daughter

    Barbara Comyns

    The world of Alice Rowlands is Edwardian south London at its most oppressive. Alice longs for romance and excitement, but she is trapped in a life which is dreary -…

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