"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried." So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths . But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and na ve when she marries fellow artist Charles...
a quirky tale of girl made good in the bohemian north London of the thirties for fans of Stevie Smith