![]() ![]() ![]() Her 2004 novel, Clear, is set in London during David Blaine's Above the Below 44-day fast in London in 2003. Patrick Ness's review in The Guardian described the book as "phenomenally good" despite it being a "838-page epic with little describable plot, taking place over just a few days and set in. ![]() Together with Darkmans (2007) they form an informal trilogy based around the Thames Gateway. ![]() Wide Open and Behindlings are set respectively on the Isle of Sheppey and Canvey Island. From complaints about dog shit to passive-aggressive fanmail, from biblical amateur dramatics to an Auction of Promises that goes staggeringly wrong, Nicola Barker’s epistolary novel is a work of immense comic range. Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations, and has a fondness for bleak, isolated settings. When she was still young her parents left England and settled in South Africa. Nicola Barker's epistolary novel about a rural community recalls the droll genius of Alan Bennett. From complaints about dog shit to passive-aggressive fanmail, from biblical amateur dramatics to an Auction of Promises that goes staggeringly wrong, Nicola Barker's epistolary novel is a work of immense comic range. She was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker. The denizens of Burley Cross inhabit a world of epic pettiness, where secrets are the currency. Nicola Barker (born 30 March 1966) is an English novelist and short story writer. ![]()
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