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books:

Green Grass
Raffaella Barker

Headline Review, 2003

Raffaella Barker's captivating novel about love, the countryside, and an invisible woman starting to catch sight of herself again. Laura Sale is becoming increasingly frustrated by the relentless demands of her life as partner of a famous conceptual artist and mother to teenage twins. As Inigo grows ever more successful in London, Laura longs for the rural Norfolk of her childhood, and a chance meeting with her first love is the catalyst she ...

Hens Dancing: A Novel

15 reviews
Raffaella Barker

Anchor, 2002

great fun read
got this to give as a get well gift to a friend. thought it would make her really laugh, as it did me. she said, she loves it or will as soon as she can stay awake long enough to read it!

Phosphorescence
Raffaella Barker

Macmillan Children's Books, 2005

Fourteen-year-old Lola Jordan feels like a useless misfit among her cool city classmates. Until this term, she's lived a quiet country life on the windswept saltmarshes of north Norfolk. She's mortified when her lyrical essay on phosphorescence is read out in front of the whole school. But much worse is the ensuing geography trip to her childhood home. Camping on the famous island nature reserve run by her father, a bunch of designer-clad ...

Summertime

5 reviews
Raffaella Barker

Anchor, 2003

Didn't want it to end!
I read this book in 2 days, and wish it took longer because I didn't want it to end! The story revolves around diary entries made by a single mother named Venetia living in Norfolk England with her three children two boys 9& 10--Giles and Felix, and a three year old girl that the author refers to only as The Beauty. Venetia is supported by a fun cast of wacky characters, from her flower power ...

Come and Tell Me Some Lies
Raffaella Barker

Headline Book Publishing, 2000

Gabriella has many siblings and more animals. Her father is an impoverished poet with a penchant for mending cars with string and optimism, her mother a classicist now more concerned with trying to keep track of spiralling chaotic family life than the declining of verbs. Gabriella and her brothers run amuck through the attics and wilderness garden of their home, Mildney. Here she observes and experiences the triumphs and pitfalls of belonging ...