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The Juniper Tree (New York Review Books Classics)
The Juniper Tree - New York Review Books Classics Author:Barbara Comyns 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 mot... more »her. 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?« less