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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.
Tragic, comic and completely bonkers all in one, I'd go as far as
to call her something of a neglected genius
*Guardian*
A vision that shifts between savagery, lyricism and tragic wit. A
true original
*Independent*
It is hard not to believe that Barbara Comyns's own adventures are
entangled in her fiction. Sisters by a River, which she wrote for
her own children
*Spectator*
Quite simply, Comyns' writes like no one else
*Maggie O'Farrell*
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