A review by balancinghistorybooks
Sisters By a River by Barbara Comyns, Barbara Trapido

3.0

I decided to reread this in October, as I did not remember a great deal of it. I read it at around the same time as Our Spoons Came From Woolworths and The Vet's Daughter, and it has evidently paled in comparison somewhat. A striking child's voice is used here from the position of retrospect, and the structure takes a jumble of both separate and interconnected memories as its focal point. As is often the case with unreliable narrators in fiction, some of the peripheral characters came to life more than others. It is a mysterious and well executed tome, and the very fact that it presents an entirely different life to my own makes it all the more compelling.