A "Wall Street Journal" Favorite Book of the Year . A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice . Named a Best Book of the Year by "Vol. 1 Brooklyn" and "The Globe and Mail" (Canada)

Bev Tunney and Amy Schein have been best friends for years, but now, at thirty, they're at a crossroads. Bev is a hardworking Midwesterner still mourning a years-old romantic catastrophe that derailed her career. Amy is an East Coast princess, whose luck and charm have, so far, allowed her to skate through life. Bev is stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of temping, drowning in student loan debt, and...

I told Helen my story and she went home and cried. So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures.
Sophia is twenty-one and naive when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of her husband than she is of her pet newt; she can t keep house (everything she cooks tastes of soap); and she mistakes morning sickness for the aftereffects of a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and the money Sophia makes from the...