Raffaella Barker

• Aug-1997
• / General Fiction
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'This tremendous book about life, love and fish will confirm Raffaella Barker's reputation as one of the cleverest and freshest young British novelists' Daily Mail

'Stylish and insightful ... With the pace and verve of a th...

• Mar-2001
• / General Fiction
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A truly funny, intelligently told story that takes you deep into someone else's life

'Should be read for Barker's glittering prose ... Venetia is a disarmingly wry and engaging narrator with a keen eye for nature and the follie...

• May-2002
• / Contemporary Romance
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A sparkling comedy of rural life, high and low

'Very, very funny' Independent

'I loved it. I couldn't put it down ... Raffaella Barker is so good at drawing her characters and making them likeable that within abo...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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The classic story of a chaotic, creative family

'The whole is suffused with love. To write well and with such open-hearted affection is an achievement' Observer

'A funny, though sometimes melancholy, story of irrespo...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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No matter where you land up, the grass is always greener somewhere else...

'Touching, honest and often very funny ... Art camouflaged by lightness of touch and a seemingly effortless eye for dialogue' Tatler

'I love ...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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An elegant reissue of the classic novel

'Charming ... Engrossing' Sunday Times
'Beautifully poignant, insightful and grown-up' Mirror

The Stone family live a fairy-tale existence in their home in rural Norfo...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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'Both lyrical and real, light and darkly full of yearnings for a profound and lifelong love' Good Housekeeping

'Barker gathers confidence and power with each novel, and Poppyland is a rich, confident and emotionally convincing ...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction
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In April 1946 Michael returns from war and finds he cannot face the life that awaits him at home. Impulsively he leaps on a train to the western tip of Cornwall, and in doing so changes his destiny. He finds himself in a bohemian colony of artists ga...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction
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Lola Jordan's life is sinking deep into disaster. Not only does she feel like a total loser at her new London school, but then her project on phosphorescence is read out in front of the entire school assembly â€" and she wants the ground to swall...