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Barbara Comyns : A Savage Innocence by Horner, Avril

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Author: Horner, Avril

Biography: literary

Published on 15 April 2025 by MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 372 pages, 41 black & white illustrations
198 x 129 | 0g

A ground-breaking biography of a cult British novelist.

The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on to publish a sequence of novels unique in the English language.

Comyns turned her hand to many jobs in order to survive, from artist”s model to piano restorer. Unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs, spies and high society. While working as a housekeeper in her mid-thirties, Comyns

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Barbara Comyns : A Savage Innocence by Horner, Avril