Our Spoons Came from Woolworths - Couverture rigide

Comyns, Barbara

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0860683532 ISBN 13 : 9780860683537

Editeur : Virago Press Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Sophia is twenty-one years old, carries a newt -- Great Warty -- around in her pocket and marries -- in haste -- a young artist called Charles. Swept into bohemian London of the thirties, Sophia is ill-equipped to cope. Poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice to her life, Sophia takes up with the dismal, ageing art critic, Peregrine, and learns to repent her marriage -- and her affair -- at leisure.

But in this case virtue is more than its own reward, for repentance brings an abrupt end to a life of unpaid bills, unsold pictures and unwashed crockery . . .

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Comyns (1909-92) was born in Bidford-on-Avon in Warwickshire. She was an artist and writer, worked in advertising, dealt in old cars and antiques, bred poodles and developed property. She was twice married, and she and her second husband lived in Spain for eighteen years, returning to the UK in the early 1970s. She is the author of eleven books, including Sisters by a River (1947), Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (1950), The Vet's Daughter (1959), The Skin Chairs (1962) and A Touch of Mistletoe (1967). She died in Shropshire in 1992.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860683532
• ISBN 13: 9780860683537
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible