A Touch of Mistletoe - Couverture souple

Comyns, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911547860 ISBN 13 : 9781911547860

Editeur : Daunt Books, 2021

Synopsis

The morning I left home Mother was recovering from being poorly and she’d been sick in the vegetable basket.

Sisters Victoria and Blanche grow up in their grandfather's house in Warwickshire. It’s a secluded existence: their mother is a war widow with a thirst for port and sherry and their last governess leaves never to be replaced. When their grandfather dies, their mother replaces drink with housework and the girls plan their escape.

Blanche heads off to train as a model at a dubious institution in London. Vicky wants to study art but answers an ad leading her to Holland, where she tends a pack of miserable bull terriers. This is just the beginning of the sisters’ adventures which take them from the poverty of cooking eggs over a candle in their Mornington Crescent bedsit, to a wider bohemian world, as they encounter love and the fluctuating fortunes that come when you’re open to the strange twists life can take.

First published in 1967, A Touch of Mistletoe is a unique coming of age story that shows Barbara Comyns's inimitable voice at its best.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Comyns was born in England in 1909. She and her siblings were brought up by governesses, and allowed to run wild. She wrote eleven books including Sisters by a River, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead and The Vet's Daughter. To support her family, she worked a variety of jobs over the course of her life, including dealing in antiques and vintage cars, renovating apartments, and breeding poodles. She was an accomplished painter, and exhibited with The London Group. She died in 1992.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Daunt Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1911547860
• ISBN 13: 9781911547860
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible