Based on Grimm's fairy tale of the same name, The Juniper Tree is ahaunting and beautifully written fable by the acclaimed author ofThe Vet's Daughter.In their idyllic garden, Gertrude and Bernard for
Fiction. This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, "quacking their approval" as they sail a
The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange
“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 heroi
Bella Winter is homeless and jobless. The mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn’t quite catch, her once pretty face is now marred by a scar from a car accident. She’s
