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Alice Rowland ist 17 Jahre alt und lebt in einem trostlosen und bedrückenden Londoner Vorort. In ihren eigenen lebendig-naiven Worten erzählt sie ihre bestürzende Geschichte. Ihr Vater ist ein tyrannischer Tierarzt, der seiner Familie gegenüber brutal, kalt und voll Abscheu ist. Alice sehnt sich nach Abenteuer und Romantik, doch ihr Leben ist einsam und erdrückend. Mit dem Tod ihrer Mutter ist sie endgültig der Willkür ihres Vaters ausgeliefer...

Un piccolo villaggio inglese di fine Ottocento adagiato sulle sponde di un placido fiume viene improvvisamente colpito da una serie di calamità che sembrano il frutto di una violenta maledizione. A inaugurare la serie di terribili eventi è il fiume, che al principio dell'estate decide di straripare trascinando con sé gli abitanti in una ballata surreale e imprevedibile, contro la quale l'eccentrica famiglia Willoweed dispiegherà l'arsenale del...

Originally published in 1954, this strange novel with its macabre humour, speaks with Barbara Comyns' unique and magical voice.

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A modern reimagining of a classic fairy tale by one of most bewitching, idiosyncratic British writers of the twentieth century.Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn't quite catch, and her once pretty face is disfigured by the scar she acquired in a car accident. Friendless and without family, she's recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indifferent boyfriend and ...

A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' Sarah WatersGrowing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary, restrictive and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and domineering, his new girlfrie...

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I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was . . . Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else' Maggie O'FarrellPretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to...

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Avevo la strana idea che se riuscivi a controllare la mente e ripetevi con forza 'Non avrò mai figli', con ogni probabilità non sarebbero venuti. Pensavo che 'controllo delle nascite' significasse questo." Sophia ha ventuno anni, un avventato matrimonio da far funzionare, e adesso aspetta anche un bambino. Le ambizioni artistiche del neo-papà poco aiutano il bilancio domestico della giovane famiglia, che si barcamena in una Londra anni Trenta ...

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 ...

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, "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 luc...