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Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
- Author
- Barbara Comyns
- Narrator
- Madeleine Leslay
- Publisher
- SAGA Egmont
- Publish Date
- 23 February 2023
- Run Time
- 5 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
What to expect
Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her.
Hoping to add some spice to her life, Sophia takes up with Peregrine, a dismal, ageing critic, and comes to regret her marriage - and her affair. But in this case, virtue is more than its own reward, for repentance brings an abrupt end to the cycle of unsold pictures, unpaid bills and unwashed dishes...
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User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 4.0
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4.0 4.0
Interesting book.
Would have been good to have been warned about all the plot reveals/ 'spoiler alerts' in the foreword by Maggie O'Farrell, to give the option to skip it, and listen once the book was finished.Xtine 2023-08-27
Details
- Author
- Barbara Comyns
- Narrator
- Madeleine Leslay
- Duration
- 5 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 February 2023
- ISBN
- 9788728572795
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- SAGA Egmont
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Historical romance, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 4.0(1 review)
Synopsis
"I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else." Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice to her life, Sophia takes up with Peregrine, a dismal, ageing critic, and comes to regret her marriage - and her affair. But in this case, virtue is more than its own reward, for repentance brings an abrupt end to the cycle of unsold pictures, unpaid bills and unwashed dishes ...-
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