Avril Horner

May 1, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Avril Horner

‘But you’ve killed me!’ Barbara Comyns’s daughter, Caroline, recognised her younger self in Fanny, the little girl who dies of scarlet fever in Comyns’s second novel, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths.

Mar 14, 2024 | lithub.com | Avril Horner

Barbara Comyns married the young artist John Pemberton in 1931 and their son, Julian, was born the following year. Intent on becoming a famous artist and resentful of being made a father in his early twenties, John began going to nightclubs and did little to support his wife and child. Barbara later thought of this period as “the poverty.”When their marriage began to disintegrate, Barbara Comyns, like her husband, took lovers.

Mar 13, 2024 | readersdigest.co.uk | Avril Horner

HomeCultureBooks How novelist Barbara Comyns channelled her struggles creatively BY Avril Horner 13th Mar 2024 Books Taken from the first biography of a remarkable novelist, Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence by Avril Horner, Avril talks about the struggles and challenges Barbara faced and channelled in her work Leading a life as captivating as her narratives, writer Barbara Comyns experienced hardship in her youth and single motherhood before the age of 30, before going on to write a number...

Mar 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Avril Horner

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Feb 8, 2024 | nybooks.com | Costica Bradatan |Geoff Dyer |Avril Horner |Eleanor Janega

At Ease Amid the Ruins Costica Bradatan and Geoff Dyer explore the virtues of failure and humility in the face of the next-to-nothingness of human existence.