Our Spoons Came from Woolworths is a novel by the English writer Barbara Comyns, first published in 1950.

[1] The book is based on Comyns's marriage to John Pemberton, which ended in 1935.

In the bohemian London of the 1930s, Sophia Fairclough and her husband Charles are painters, twenty-one and newly married, and poor.

Sophia has two babies and a pet newt, becomes a life model to support her family and starts an affair with an ageing art critic called Peregrine.

[2][3] The book is substantially autobiographical, with only a small number of purely imaginary scenes.