The Juniper Tree
  • Published:
    Aug-1986 (Hardcover)
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    192
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A feminist reimagining of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a single mother and an enchanted friendship -- from one of most bewitching British writers of the 20th century.

“Comyns's world is weird and wonderful . . . Tragic , comic and completely bonkers all in one, I'd go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius.”  -- The Observer

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 cruel and indifferent mother. But she shares a quality common to Barbara Comyns's other heroines: a bracingly unsentimental ability to carry on. Before too long, Bella has found not only a job but a vocation; not only a place to live but a home and a makeshift family.
 
As Comyns's novel progresses, the story echoes and inverts the Brothers Grimm's macabre tale The Juniper Tree. Will Bella's hard-won restoration to life and love come at the cost of the happiness of others?
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EDITIONS
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    • Jan-2004
    • Griffin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312302193
    • ISBN13: 9780312302191
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    • Oct-2011
    • Capuchin Classics
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1907429190
    • ISBN13: 9781907429194
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    • Jan-2018
    • NYRB Classics
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1681371316
    • ISBN13: 9781681371313
    • First Edition
    • Aug-1986
    • St. Martin's
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0312448589
    • ISBN13: 9780312448585
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    • Jul-2012
    • Capuchin Classics
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jul-2012
    • Stacey Publishing Limited
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1907429573
    • ISBN13: 9781907429576
    •  
    • Jul-2012
    • New York Review Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1681371324
    • ISBN13: 9781681371320
    •  
    • Jan-2018
    • NYRB Classics
    • eBook (Kindle)



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