“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” I have an ongoing reading project called “A Century of Women,” where I am reading a book written by a woman author for every year in the 20th century, from 1900 through 1999. For that reason, you’ll be seeing a lot of reviews of books written – by women – before 2000. Published in 1950, Our Spoons Came From Woolworths is told in the first person by Sophia Fairclough, who meets and marries Charles […]
Each day had been more stormy than the last.
So this is an impossible little book to classify, but it’s one in which tone tone ton tells you what you need to know about it. A little town that has recently been hit with a flood, or perhaps an annual flood gone a little awry. Comyns begins us with a cryptic and wonderful image of someone rowing their way through a house. This opens up our introduction to Ebin Willoweed, the protagonist or at least head of household for this story. We go from […]