Title Our spoons came from Woolworths / Barbara Comyns ; introduction by Emily Gould. [Boundless electronic resource]

Publication Info.	New York : New York Review Books, 2015.
	©1950

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Description	1 online resource.
Series	New York Review Books classics
	New York Review Books classics.
Summary	"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried" begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from maudlin, despite the ostensibly harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one when she marries fellow artist Charles, and she seems to have nearly as much affection for her pet newt as she does for her husband. Her housekeeping knowledge is lacking (everything she cooks tastes of soap) and she attributes her morning sickness to a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and in any case, the money Sophia earns at her occasional modeling gigs are not enough to make up for her husband's lack of interest in keeping the heat on. Predictably, the marriage begins to falter; not so predictably, Sophia's optimistic guilelessness is the very thing responsible for turning her life around"-- Provided by publisher.
System Details	Requires Boundless App.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Subject	Marital conflict -- Fiction.
	Artists -- England -- London -- Fiction.
	Artists.
	Manners and customs.
	Marital conflict.
	London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
	England -- London.
Genre	Domestic fiction.
	Autobiographical fiction.
	Electronic books.
	Domestic fiction.
	Fiction.
Other Form:	Print version: Comyns, Barbara, 1909-1992. Our spoons came from Woolworths New York : New York Review Books, 2015 9781590178966 (DLC) 2015015625
ISBN	9781590178973 : $14.95
	1590178971 : $14.95

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