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I told Helen my story and she went home and cried. So begins . But Barbara Comynss beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures.

Sophia is twenty-one and nave when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of her husband than she is of her pet newt; she cant 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 occasional modeling gig doesnt make up for her husbands indifference to paying the rent. Predictably, the marriage falters; not so predictably, Sophias artlessness will be the very thing that turns her life around.