She then married a painter and had two children. She began writing and illustrating her work when she was a girl and in her teens, attended art school. But as the virus spreads and hysteria grips everyone around them, they realise their lives are about to change forever.Ī twisted pandemic parable and a tragicomic gem.īarbara Comyns (1909–1992) was born in England and raised in the care of governesses who allowed her and her siblings to run wild. The wild and mysterious countryside is the only world they have ever known. They have grown up in the village, cared for by their meek father and bullied by their grandmother with her enormous ear trumpet. A peculiar illness is spreading through the town and picking off its victims one by one.įrom the Willoweed cottage, sisters Emma and Hattie watch the tragedy unfold. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles.Īll of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown.
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