Poppyland - Softcover

Barker, Raffaella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755324129 ISBN 13: 9780755324125

Publisher: Headline Review, 2009

Synopsis

On a freezing cold night in an unfamiliar city, a man meets a woman. The encounter lasts just moments, but both are left breathless. Five years on, the man and the woman are living seperate lives, thousands of miles apart. If they were to meet again, would they do whatever it took to hold on to each other?

About this title

About the Author

Raffaella Barker, daughter of the poet George Barker, was born and brought up in the Norfolk countryside. She is the author of seven other novels: Come and Tell Me Some Lies; The Hook; Hens Dancing; Summertime; Green Grass; A Perfect Life and, most recently, From a Distance. She has also written a novel for young adults, Phosphorescence. She is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph, and teaches on the Literature and Creative Writing BA at the University of East Anglia and the Guardian UEA Novel Writing Masterclass. Raffaella Barker lives by the sea in north Norfolk. www.raffaellabarker.co.uk

Review

A modern-day Brief Encounter Daily Express Both lyrical and real, light and darkly full of yearnings for a profound and lifelong love Good Housekeeping Barker is drawn repeatedly to the wheeling desolation of the Norfolk coast - this vivid evocation leaps off the page, as do the delightful snapshots revealing the hot-breathed collision of family life Independent An insightful, highly readable novel Daily Express Barker gathers confidence and power with each novel, and Poppyland is a rich, confident and emotionally convincing piece of writing Sunday Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Headline Review
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0755324129
• ISBN 13: 9780755324125
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384