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  • Our Spoons Came From Woolworths

    A Virago Modern Classic

    Series Libro 93 - VMC
    I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was . . . Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else' Maggie O'FarrellPretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) ... Leer más

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  • Sisters By A River

    A Virago Modern Classic

    Series Libro 94 - Virago Modern Classics
    'Tragic, comic and completely bonkers all in one, I'd go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius' LUCY SCHOLES, GUARDIAN'It is hard not to believe that Barbara Comyns's own adventures are entangled in her fiction' JANE GARDAM, SPECTATOR'All of her books read as if she wrote them effortlessly' URSULA HOLDENOn the banks of the River Avon, five sisters are born. The seasons come and go, ... Leer más

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  • The Vet's Daughter

    A Virago Modern Classic

    Series Libro 95 - Virago Modern Classics
    'A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities' SARAH WATERS'A wonderful and original novel' ALAN HOLLINGHURST'The strange off-beat talent of Barbara Comyns [whose] innocent eye observes with child-like simplicity the most fantastic or the most ominous occurrence' GRAHAM GREENE'Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else' ... Leer más

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  • The Weather In The Streets

    Series Libro 250 - Virago Modern Classics
    INTRODUCED BY LUCY CALDWELL'With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of their relationship' ESTHER FREUD, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'T****old with raw, emotional honesty that, in 1936, was rare and shocking. And still is' DAILY MAIL'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes'</s... ... Leer más

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  • Invitation to the Waltz

    Series Libro 246 - Virago Modern Classics
    ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions' ANITA BROOKNER'Every emotional ripple is beautifully observed: the hideous anticipation' GUARDIAN'Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers, of daughters' MARGARET DRABBLEA diary for her innermost thoughts, a... ... Leer más

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  • A Game of Hide and Seek

    Series Libro 6 - Virago Modern Classics
    'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' - Elizabeth Bowen, author of The Heat of the DayIntelligent and haunting, with echoes of Brief Encounter, this is a love story by one of the best British writers of the 20th century.During summer games of hide and seek Harriet falls in love with Vesey and his elusive, teasing ways. When he ... Leer más

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  • Angel

    A Virago Modern Classic

    Series Libro 1 - Virago Modern Classics
    INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTELElizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersWriting stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted ... Leer más

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  • A View of the Harbour

    A Virago Modern Classic

    Series Libro 5 - Virago Modern Classics
    INTRODUCED BY SARAH WATERS'Every one of her books is a treat and this is my favourite, because of its wonderful cast of characters, and because of the deftness with which Taylor's narrative moves between them ... A wonderful writer' SARAH WATERSIn the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high ... Leer más

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  • Nightingale Wood

    Series Libro 154 - Virago Modern Classics
    'Gibbons is superb on middle class life' SAM JORDISON, GUARDIAN'A sharp-edged romantic comedy, we have a chance to see what we've been missing' DAILY MAIL'What luxury to stumble upon this quirky book, and the fascinating modern woman who wrote it' SOPHIE DAHLLife is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband's family in a joyless ... Leer más

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  • The Stepdaughter

    A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's “quite pilliant” (The Times) debut.A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous escalation.J is a lonely woman without even the luxury of being alone. Her husband has fled to Paris with his latest flame, but he’s left J not only with their own four-year-old daughter, Sally ... Leer más

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  • The Fate of Mary Rose

    The rediscovered dark masterpiece for fans of Shirley Jackson

    Series Libro 821 - Virago Modern Classics
    THE PITCH-BLACK REDISCOVERED CLASSICFrom the Booker-shortlisted author of Great Granny Webster, this twisted modern classic is perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Celia Dale.'One of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived' Virginia Feito'This chillingly profound story drips with classy darkness. . . a one-way descent into the abyss' Janice Hallett'A dark masterpiece' ... ... Leer más

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  • 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 completely bonkers all in one, I’d go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius.” —The ObserverBella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is ... Leer más

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