Barbara Comyns

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Our Spoons Came From Woolworths

A Virago Modern Classic

Mitarbeit: O'Farrell, Maggie

Beschreibung

Barbara Comyns' delightful classic novel set in bohemian 1930s London with an introduction by Maggie O'Farrell.

Autor

Born in 1909 at Bidford-on-Avon, Barbara Comyns was educated mainly by governesses until she went to art schools in Stratfordupon-Avon and London. She started writing fiction at the age of ten and her first novel, Sisters by a River, was published in 1947. She also worked in an advertising agency, a typewriting bureau, dealt in old cars and antique furniture, bred poodles, converted and let flats, and exhibited pictures in The London Group. She was married first in 1931, to an artist, and for the second time in 1945. With her second husband she lived in Spain for eighteen years. She died in 1992.

Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group / Virago
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 123mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9781844089277
• ISBN-10: 1844089274
• Artikelnr.: 36188697

Rezensionen

For anyone who is interested in stories of everyday concerns, poverty, marriage, love, happiness, fulfilment, peace or joy, this is the book for you Snowswick Guardian