In the strange, beguiling novels of mid-century writer Barbara Comyns, girls levitate and ducks swim through drawing rooms, while her own colourful life included a friendship with spy Kim Philby, and her talents were championed by Graham Greene. Might a new biography finally secure her place in the literary canon, asks Jessie Thompson
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