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 is being auctioned off and the sisters dispersed among relatives. In her daring first novel, originally published in 1947, Barbara Comyns' unique young heroine relates the vivid, funny and bittersweet story of a childhood.

Sisters by a River (Virago Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Barbara Comyns

Literary

Penguin??Books

<p>Mr Fox is a spiv, dealing in second-hand cars and black-market food, and skilled in bending the law. When a woman and her young daughter are deserted at the start of World War II, he offers them a roof over their heads, and a shared, if dubious future. By the author of "The Juniper Tree".</p>

Mr. Fox (Methuen Modern Fiction)

Contemporary

Mandarin

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. By the author of " The Vet`s Daughter" .

Juniper Tree (Modern Fiction)

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

If not exactly tarts, the four ladies who live in Amy's Doll's house have built up a modest but successful "little business" entertaining their elderly gentlemen friends. But Amy is far from happy about the situation. By the author of "The Vet's Daughter" and "The Juniper Tree".

The House of Dolls

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. By the author of "The Vet's Daughter".

The Juniper Tree

The Vet's Daughter

Sterling Audio Books

“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 naïve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of her husband than she is of her pet newt; she can’t keep house (everything she cooks tastes of soap); and she mistakes morning sickness for the aftereffects of a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and the money Sophia makes from the occasional modeling gig doesn’t make up for her husband’s indifference to paying the rent. Predictably, the marriage falters; not so predictably, Sophia’s artlessness will be the very thing that turns her life around.

Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Camden)

CHIVERS LARGE PRINT (CHIVERS, WINDSOR, PARAGON C

Our Spoons Came From Woolworths  (Virago Modern Classics)

Virago Press Ltd.

SISTERS BY A RIVER

Virago Modern Classics / Virag

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WHO WAS CHANGED & WHO DE (Virago Modern Classics)

Trafalgar Square Books

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