The Juniper Tree (Paperback) af Barbara Comyns (Bog)

Bella Winter is homeless and jobless. The mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn t quite catch her once pretty face is now marred by a scar from a car accident. 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 heroines: a bracingly unsentimental ability to carry on. It s not long before 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 fairy-tale The Juniper Tree. Will Bella s hard-won restoration to life and love come at the cost of others happiness? -- 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?

Forlag: New York Review of Books

Udgivelsesår: 2018

Sider: 193

Sprog: Engelsk