A Touch of Mistletoe

A Touch of Mistletoe
Barbara Comyns, Megan Nolan
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 352pg
15 Jul 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781911547860
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This is the story of Blanche and Vicky. Following the death of their grandfather - in whose enormous Warwickshire house they live - their mother relinquishes drink (to which she had taken in a big way) for the joys of frantic housework. Naturally the girls long to escape. Blanche trains as a model at a dubious institution in London, and Vicky flees to Holland and a purgatorial life as an au pair to a lot of dogs. But this is only the beginning and other adventures await them, including the poverty and cabbage smells of one-room living, the charcoaled fingers of art school, drunkenness and cheap restaurants of Soho bohemia, and varying degrees of excitement with several husbands and lovers. First published in 1967, A Touch of Mistletoe shows Barbara Comyns' original voice at its best, mixing a characteristic simplicity with a quiet but cunning wit. ' Everyone should read Barbara Comyns. . . There is no one to beat her when it comes to the uncanny. ' - Rachel Cooke, Guardian ' Comyns' s heroines, and her novels, are plaintive, strange, and robust all at once. ' - TLS
' Everyone should read Barbara Comyns. . . There is no one to beat her when it comes to the uncanny. ' - Rachel Cooke, Guardian ' Comyns' s heroines, and her novels, are plaintive, strange, and robust all at once. ' - TLS
Barbara Comyns was born in England in 1909 and raised in a Warwickshire country house. She and her siblings were brought up by governesses, and allowed to run wild. In her teens she attended art school in London. She wrote eleven books including Sisters by a River, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, The Vet' s Daughter and Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead. To support her family she did a variety of jobs over 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.
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ISBN-13: 9781911547860
Published: 15 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 352

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