Why Barbara Comyns is the best English novelist you’ve never heard of

Why Barbara Comyns is the best English novelist you’ve never heard of

In the strange, beguiling novels of mid-century writer Barbara Comyns, girls levitate and ducks swim through drawing rooms, while her own colourful life included a friendship with spy Kim Philby, and her talents were championed by Graham Greene. Might a new biography finally secure her place in the literary canon, asks Jessie Thompson

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