The Juniper Tree

The Juniper Tree - Paperback

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The Juniper Tree
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The Juniper Tree - Paperback

The Juniper Tree - Paperback

by Barbara Comyns
$17.95
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Book Overview

A modern reimagining of a classic fairy tale by one of most bewitching, idiosyncratic British writers of the twentieth century.

Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn't quite catch, and her once pretty face is disfigured by the scar she acquired in a car accident. Friendless and without family, she's recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indifferent boyfriend and a cruel and indifferent mother. But she shares a quality common to Barbara Comyns's other heroines: a bracingly unsentimental ability to carry on. Before too long, Bella has found not only a job but a vocation; not only a place to live but a home and a makeshift family. As Comyns's novel progresses, the story echoes and inverts the Brothers Grimm's macabre tale The Juniper Tree. Will Bella's hard-won restoration to life and love come at the cost of the happiness of others?
ISBN9781681371313
Author Barbara Comyns
PublisherNew York Review of Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages192
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Classics Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology Family Life Fiction

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The Juniper Tree - Paperback

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About Barbara Comyns

Barbara Comyns was born in England in 1909 and raised in a Warwickshire country house. She and her siblings were largely in the care of governesses, and allowed to run wild. She began writing and illustrating her work when she was a girl. In her teens she attended art school in London. She then married a painter and had two children. To support her family, she dealt in antiques and vintage cars, renovated apartments, and bred poodles. She later lived in Spain for eighteen years. In addition to writing, she was an accomplished painter and exhibited with the London Group. She died in 1992, leaving two children, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and eleven books.

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