# Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead

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- Book: [Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-comyns/who-was-changed-and-who-was-dead) ([Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-comyns/who-was-changed-and-who-was-dead.md))
- Authors: [Barbara Comyns](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-comyns)
- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-08-6068-677-4
- Published: 1987-01-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

At the beginning of June the river floods, ducks swim through the drawing-room windows and Ebin Willowd rows his daughters round the submerged garden. The grandmother dresses in magenta for her seventy-first birthday whist drive and looks forward to the first prize of pate de fois gras. Later Ives the gardener leads a morose procession up river, dragging her to a funeral in a black-draped punt. The miller goes mad and drowns himself and a cottage is set alight. Villagers keep dying and at the house on a river, plates are thrown across the luncheon table and a tortoise through a window. The newspaper asks 'Who will be smitten by the fatal madness next?'