Synopsis
In their idyllic garden, Gertrude and Bernard forge a perfect triangle of friendship with Bella, the scarred mother of an illegitimate child. Then Gertrude conceives the child which has long eluded her, and the spell breaks into foreboding, menace and madness. By the author of "The Vet's Daughter".
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'The Juniper Tree' could hardly have been more satisfactorily accomplished. --Times Literary Supplement
Delicate, tough, quick-moving, it s a haunting book ... an amazing achievement --Financial Times
About the Author
Barbara Comyns was born in 1909 and brought up in rural Warwickshire, where she began writing and illustrating stories at the age of ten. Her idiosyncratic novels have been described as 'like pictures painted on glass'. She died in 1992.
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