Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

by Barbara Comyns
4/5
(10 votes)

This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live.

It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, “quacking their approval” as they sail around the room.

“What about my rose beds?” demands Grandmother W.

First published
2017
Publishers
Dorothy· a publishing project
Language
English

This is an older story but still wonderful to read today.

The world is a rare and wondrous place. Children are relatively innocent.

This is a fun little book. As I understand it was inspired by a real life event in a French village, Pont Saint Espirt, in 1951.

Barbara Comyns

About Barbara Comyns

Barbara Comyns was educated mainly by governesses until she went to art schools in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. Her father was a semi-retired managing director of a Midland chemical firm. She was one of six children and they lived in a house on the banks of the Avon in Warwickshire. She started writing fiction at the age of ten and her first novel, Sisters by a River, was published in 1947. She also worked in an advertising agency, a typewriting bureau, dealt in old cars and antique furniture, bred poodles, converted and let flats, and exhibited pictures in The London Group. She was married first in 1931, to an artist, and for the second time in 1945. With her second husband she lived in Spain for eighteen years....

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