Fiction. This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English
village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in
the drawing-room windows, "quacking their approval" as they sail
around the room. "What about my rose beds?" demands Grandmother
Willoweed. Her son shouts down her ear-trumpet that the garden is
submerged, dead animals everywhere, she will be lucky to get a
bunch. Then the miller drowns himself...then the butcher slits his
throat...and a series of gruesome deaths plagues the villagers. The
newspaper asks, "Who will be smitten by this fatal madness next?"
Through it all, Comyns' unique voice weaves a text as wonderful as
it is horrible, as beautiful as it is cruel. Originally published
in England in 1954, this "overlooked small masterpiece" is a
twisted, tragicomic gem.
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