Barbara Comyns: A savage innocence
By Avril Horner
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By Avril Horner
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A ground-breaking biography of a cult British novelist.
The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on to publish a sequence of novels unique in the English language.
Comyns turned her hand to many jobs in order to survive, from artist’s model to piano restorer. Unpublished letters reveal ...
The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on to publish a sequence of novels unique in the English language.
Comyns turned her hand to many jobs in order to survive, from artist’s model to piano restorer. Unpublished letters reveal ...






















