Our Spoons Came from Woolworths explained

Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
Author:	Barbara Comyns
Country:	United Kingdom
Genre:	Fiction
Publisher:	Eyre & Spottiswoode
Release Date:	1950
Media Type:	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)

Our Spoons Came from Woolworths is a novel by the English writer Barbara Comyns, first published in 1950.^[1]

The story

The book is based on Comyns's marriage to John Pemberton, which ended in 1935. In the bohemian London of the 1930s, Sophia Fairclough and her husband Charles are painters, twenty-one and newly married, and poor. Sophia has two babies and a pet newt, becomes a life model to support her family and starts an affair with an ageing art critic called Peregrine.^{[2] [3]} The book is substantially autobiographical, with only a small number of purely imaginary scenes.^[4]

Publication

Our Spoons Came from Woolworths was published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1950. It was reissued by Virago in 1983, and has been reprinted several times since then.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Barbara Comyns (1950). Our Spoons came from Woolworths. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode.
2. Lucy Scholes (28 July 2013). Sisters By a River; Our Spoons Came from Woolworths; The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns – review. The Guardian. Accessed March 2015.
3. Comyns, Barbara, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Virago)
4. Celia Brayfield (2004). Carr, Barbara Irene Veronica Comyns (1907–1992). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Book: Comyns. Barbara. Our spoons came from Woolworths. 2004. Virago. London. 0860683532. Reprinted with a new introduction by Ursula Holden.