After her father's death, Frances, ten, her mother, two brothers, and three sisters have difficulty adjusting to diminished circumstances and a domineering aunt

The Skin Chairs (Virago Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Comyns, Barbara

Literary

Penguin Group USA

Fiction. 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, "quacking their approval" as they sail around the room. "What about my rose beds?" demands Grandmother Willoweed. Her son shouts down her ear-trumpet that the garden is submerged, dead animals everywhere, she will be lucky to get a bunch. Then the miller drowns himself...then the butcher slits his throat...and a series of gruesome deaths plagues the villagers. The newspaper asks, "Who will be smitten by this fatal madness next?" Through it all, Comyns' unique voice weaves a text as wonderful as it is horrible, as beautiful as it is cruel. Originally published in England in 1954, this "overlooked small masterpiece" is a twisted, tragicomic gem.

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (Virago Modern Classics)

Penguin??Books

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.

Touch of Mistletoe (Virago Modern Classics)

British & Irish

The four eccentric blue-haired ladies who make money by illegally entertaining elderly gentlemen rent the upstairs rooms at Amy Doll's house, until Amy decides its time for them to move on before they make an impression on her daughter

The House of Dolls

St Martins Pr

In a novel that borrows from the Grimm fable of the same name, Gertrude, an older woman, becomes the friend of a lonely scarred girl named Bella

The Juniper Tree

Mythology & Folk Tales

St. Martin's: Griffin

Living with her cruel father and ailing mother, Alice Rowland discovers she has the power to levitate

The Vet's Daughter (Virago Modern Classic)

DOUBLEDAY

Children's storybook of the monster movie blockbuster, featuring full colour stills from the film.

Our spoons came from Woolworths (A Virago modern classic)

Contemporary

DIAL PRESS

Mr. Fox

Methuen Co Ltd

Based on Grimm's fairy tale of the same name, The Juniper Tree is a haunting and beautifully written fable by the acclaimed author of The Vet's Daughter. 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. Simply told yet utterly compelling, The Juniper Tree is a multifaceted jewel of a tale, exquisitely written, by a true original

The juniper tree

METHUEN

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The Skin Chairs (Virago Modern Classics)

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (Virago Modern Classics)

Touch of Mistletoe (Virago Modern Classics)

The House of Dolls

The Juniper Tree

The Juniper Tree

The Vet's Daughter (Virago Modern Classic)

Our spoons came from Woolworths (A Virago modern classic)

Mr. Fox

The juniper tree