Our Spoons Came from Woolworths Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

    • 4.2 • 18 Ratings
    • $9.99
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. 

Sophia is twenty-one and naïve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of her husband than she is of her pet newt; she can’t keep house (everything she cooks tastes of soap); and she mistakes morning sickness for the aftereffects of a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and the money Sophia makes from the occasional modeling gig doesn’t make up for her husband’s indifference to paying the rent. Predictably, the marriage falters; not so predictably, Sophia’s artlessness will be the very thing that turns her life around.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2015
November 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2.1
MB

More Books Like This

Ellis Island Ellis Island
2011
Joyner's Dream Joyner's Dream
2011
Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
2005
The Complete Helen Forrester 4-Book Memoir The Complete Helen Forrester 4-Book Memoir
2013
Stone Cradle Stone Cradle
2014
Lime Street at Two Lime Street at Two
2012

More Books by Barbara Comyns & Emily Gould

The Juniper Tree The Juniper Tree
2018
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
2010
Córka weterynarza Córka weterynarza
2023
Los que cambiaron y los que murieron Los que cambiaron y los que murieron
2020
La ragazza che levita La ragazza che levita
2019
El enebro El enebro
2019

Customers Also Bought

The English Understand Wool (Storybook ND Series) The English Understand Wool (Storybook ND Series)
2022
Excellent Women Excellent Women
1978
Sorrow and Bliss Sorrow and Bliss
2021
Foster Foster
2022
The Promise The Promise
2021
Homeland Elegies Homeland Elegies
2020