Raffaella Barker
1) Summertime
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
When her boyfriend's job takes him to the Brazilian rain forest, Venetia Summers finds her life begin to unravel as she deals with suddenly single motherhood, children, eccentric new neighbors, and family.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
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 gathered on the Cornish coast, and his fate is shaped by his heart, his new environment, and the fragmented Britain to which he has returned. More than fifty years later, a man arrives in Norfolk to claim--reluctantly--his...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner trade edition.
Language
English
Description
"Following the publication of her acclaimed, darkly funny novel O Caledonia, Elspeth Barker's sharp and witty essays appeared regularly in the national press. Notes from the Henhouse, a selection of the most personal of these pieces, welcomes readers into the celebrated writer's life. Tracing Barker's upbringing from her Scottish roots, these essays beautifully capture her time with the poet George Barker and her profound sense of loss following his...
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