Our Spoons Came From Woolworths

The first page of this novel tells us two things: that it’s a sad story, and that it gets better. From there, we launch directly in to the first person narrator’s history: marriage between two young artists (Charles and Julia) during the Depression, collecting furniture on a poverty-line budget, fending off intrusive and condescending in-laws. Not until things start to sour between them do we see what the introductory paragraphs didn’t foreshadow: this is a great feminist text.

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