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A review by a2lulu
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
4.0
Her voice is by turns charming, quirky, naïve, and disconcerting - but always feels real. Full of dark humor, and at times a distance or understatement in describing horrible tragedies.
Each chapter is less than 6-7 pages and some kind of significant twist happens in just about every one.
This is a fascinating review, where the writer draws lines to Elena Ferrante’s Days of Abandonment:
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/and-everything-tasted-of-soap/
Some lines from the book I saved:
the young boy feeling jealous about his dad drawing the new baby: “I’ll tell you what’s wrong with this house, no one paints me”
“she had a large flabby face and looked rather like a determined oyster”
“she was quite 6 feet tall and very beautiful in a totem-pole kind of way, with huge staring eyes like headlamps”
And the one that nearly everyone mentions:
“I had a kind of idea if you controlled your mind and said ‘I won’t have any babies’ very hard, then most likely they wouldn’t come. I thought that was what was meant by birth-control.”
Each chapter is less than 6-7 pages and some kind of significant twist happens in just about every one.
This is a fascinating review, where the writer draws lines to Elena Ferrante’s Days of Abandonment:
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/and-everything-tasted-of-soap/
Some lines from the book I saved:
the young boy feeling jealous about his dad drawing the new baby: “I’ll tell you what’s wrong with this house, no one paints me”
“she had a large flabby face and looked rather like a determined oyster”
“she was quite 6 feet tall and very beautiful in a totem-pole kind of way, with huge staring eyes like headlamps”
And the one that nearly everyone mentions:
“I had a kind of idea if you controlled your mind and said ‘I won’t have any babies’ very hard, then most likely they wouldn’t come. I thought that was what was meant by birth-control.”