Barbara Comyns

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1981
  • Latest Book:
    October 2020
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Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • The Vet's Daughter

    Growing 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 girlfriend brash and lascivious. Alice seeks...

  • Our spoons came from Woolworths

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    “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 wh...

  • The Juniper Tree

    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 complete...

  • Sisters by a River

    Mammy had her excape in her imaginary lovers, we children did not have much excape in the winter, but when the summer came there was the sun and river, some mornings I would get up at five and row up the river before anyone else had been on it, and t...

  • The Skin Chairs

  • Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

    “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, “quackin...

  • The House of Dolls

    The four eccentric blue-haired ladies who make money by illegally entertaining elderly gentlemen rent the upstairs rooms at Amy Doll's house, until Amy decides its time for them to move on before they make an impression on her daughter...

  • Touch of Mistletoe

    Autobiographical novel of the life of an impoverished upper-middle class British girl from the 1920's through the 1960's. The heroine endures many hardships but bounces on, finding joy in art, friends and family--generally considering her life a grea...

  • Mr Fox



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Barbara Comyns has published 9 books.

Barbara Comyns does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mr Fox, was published in October 2020.

The first book by Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter, was published in September 1981.

No. Barbara Comyns does not write books in series.
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