'A neglected genius.' -- Observer 'Everyone should read Barbara Comyns. . . There is no one to beat her when it comes to the uncanny.' --Guardian 'The sense of fairytale is never far away in Barbara Comyns. Its childhood power never quite left her.' --Spectator 'Comyns's own witchy way of looking at the world arises from her resourceful craft - her wordsmithery - which like a spell or a charm gives her fiction a unique flavour.' --Marina Warner 'Strange and unsettling.' --Margaret Drabble Biografía del autor Barbara Comyns was born in England in 1909. She and her siblings were brought up by governesses, and allowed to run wild. She wrote eleven books including Sisters by a River, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, The Vet's Daughter and A Touch of Mistletoe. To support her family, she worked a variety of jobs over the course of her life, including dealing in antiques and vintage cars, renovating apartments, and breeding poodles. She was an accomplished painter, and exhibited with The London Group. She died in 1992.