Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
 First edition | |
| Author | Barbara Comyns |
|---|---|
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Eyre & Spottiswoode |
Publication date | 1950 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths is a novel by the English writer Barbara Comyns, first published in 1950.[1]
The story
[edit]The book is based on Comyns's marriage to John Pemberton, which ended in 1935. In the bohemian London of the 1930s, Sophia Fairclough and her husband Charles are painters, twenty-one and newly married, and poor. Sophia has two babies and a pet newt, becomes a life model to support her family and starts an affair with an ageing art critic called Peregrine.[2][3] The book is substantially autobiographical, with only a small number of purely imaginary scenes.[4]
Publication
[edit]Our Spoons Came from Woolworths was published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1950. It was reissued by Virago in 1983, and has been reprinted several times since then.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Barbara Comyns (1950). Our Spoons came from Woolworths. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode.
- ^ Lucy Scholes (28 July 2013). Sisters By a River; Our Spoons Came from Woolworths; The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns – review. The Guardian. Accessed March 2015.
- ^ Comyns, Barbara, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Virago)
- ^ Celia Brayfield (2004). Carr, Barbara Irene Veronica Comyns (1907–1992). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50950(subscription required)
- ^ Comyns, Barbara (2004). Our spoons came from Woolworths (Reprinted with a new introduction by Ursula Holden ed.). London: Virago. ISBN 0860683532.
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