Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is...

Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (182 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter

'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 Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...

Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

´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'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old 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 her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...

Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Barbara Comyns The vet's daughter

Fictie

Engels | 159 pagina's | Virago Press, London | 2013

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Comyns A touch of mistletoe

Twee zusjes, net volwassen, vallen van het ene avontuur in het andere.

Engels | 212 pagina's | Virago, London | 1989

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Barbara Comyns Who was changed and who was dead

Engels | 146 pagina's | Virago, London | 1987

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Barbara Comyns Mr. Fox

Een jonge moeder trekt uit financiële nood in bij een heler en zwarthandelaar met een goed hart.

Fictie

Engels | 175 pagina's | Methuen, London | 1987

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Barbara Comyns The skin chairs

Een meisje tracht zich na de dood van haar vader te arrangeren met haar welgestelde maar excentrieke familie.

Engels | 200 pagina's | Virago, London | 1986

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Barbara Comyns Sisters by a river

Verhalen over het leven van een keurige Engelse familie in de jaren dertig.

Fictie

Engels | 150 pagina's | Virago, London | 1985

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Barbara Comyns The juniper tree

adapted from a children's fairy story of the same name by the brothers Grimm, which is far too macabre for adult reading

Een jonge vrouw die net een nieuw leven is begonnen, probeert haar zelfstandigheid te bewaren ondanks herhaalde beroepen op haar medemenselijkheid.

Fictie

Engels | 187 pagina's | Methuen, London | 1985

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Barbara Comyns Our spoons come from Woolworths

Engels | 223 pagina's | Virago, London | 1983

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