A comedy of errors featuring a mixture of quirky characters. A group of gardeners in a park in Palmers Green, North London, find themselves in crisis as an important meeting with the council looms. The author's collection of stories, "Love Your Enemies", won the David Higham Prize for Fiction.
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'Funny and intelligent. Barker's sense of plot and comic timing is faultless' Rachel Cusk, The Times 'Marvellous ! explodes into action, with Barker letting off fireworks and flares in all directions' TLS '[Barker] writes of the comic and sometimes sinister surrealism of ordinary people's lives, and the results are books to make you wince, gasp and laugh out loud' Independent on Sunday 'An anarchic and lovingly perverse writer' Ali Smith 'Edgy and comic, it succeeds by virtue of Barker's flamboyant sense of the absurd' Elle 'A clever and quirky tale. You'll find Nicola Barker's writing as easy to swallow as a glass of milk' Cosmopolitan
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Nicola Barker was born in Ely in 1966 and spent part of her childhood in South Africa. Among her seven previous novels are 'Darkmans' (short-listed for the 2007 Booker and Ondaatje prizes, and winner of the Hawthornden), 'Wide Open' (winner of the 2000 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award). She has also written two prize-winning collections of short-stories, and her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in east London.
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