{"product_id":"our-spoons-came-from-woolworths-9781590178966","title":"Our Spoons Came from Woolworths","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.\" So begins \u003ci\u003eOur Spoons Came from Woolworths\u003c\/i\u003e. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sophia is twenty-one and na ve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of her husband than she is of her pet newt; she can't keep house (everything she cooks tastes of soap); and she mistakes morning sickness for the aftereffects of a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and the money Sophia makes from the occasional modeling gig doesn't make up for her husband's indifference to paying the rent. Predictably, the marriage falters; not so predictably, Sophia's artlessness will be the very thing that turns her life around.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590178966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2015 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Barbara Comyns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43180639092917,"sku":"9781590178966","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_80ece977-a338-4fae-99d4-a37923abedc1.jpg?v=1697517333","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/our-spoons-came-from-woolworths-9781590178966","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}