num_pages: 193
description: 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 narrative 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.
language: English
title: Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project