автор: Barbara Comyns

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Barbara Comyns was born in England in 1909. She and her siblings were brought up by governesses, and allowed to run wild. She wrote eleven books including Sisters by a River, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, The Vet»s Daughter and A Touch of Mistletoe. To support her family, she worked a variety of jobs over the course of her life, including dealing in antiques and vintage cars, renovating apartments, and breeding poodles. She was an accomplished painter, and exhibited with The London Group. She died in 1992.




10 Электронные книги Barbara Comyns

Barbara Comyns: Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
‘Comyns’s world is weird and wonderful . . . a neglected genius’ LUCY SCHOLES, OBSERVER’A curious hybrid: a mixture of domestic disaster, social commentary, comedy, and romance . . . ‘ KATHERINE A. P …
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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 …
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Barbara Comyns: 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 …
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Barbara Comyns: Juniper Tree
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Barbara Comyns: The Juniper Tree
Based on the Brothers Grimm 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, Gertru …
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Barbara Comyns: Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
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Barbara Comyns: Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
‘Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.’ – Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet That evening the baker’s wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran.St …
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Barbara Comyns: A Touch of Mistletoe
‘The morning I left home Mother was recovering from being poorly and she’d been sick in the vegetable basket.’Sisters Victoria and Blanche grow up in their grandfather’s house in Warwickshire. It’s a …
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Barbara Comyns: Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
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Barbara Comyns: Los que cambiaron y los que murieron
El verano de 1911 se promete feliz para los habitantes del condado de Warwickshire. Nadie se imagina que una misteriosa epidemia está a punto de partir la comunidad en dos: los que cambiaron y los qu …
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