Nicola Barker is one of Britain's most original and exciting literary talents. She is the author of two short-story collections: Love Your Enemies [winner of the David Higham Prize and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award] and Heading Inland [winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize]. Her previous novels are Reversed Forecast, Small Holdings, Wide Open Behindlings and Clear, the last of which was long-listed for the 2005 Booker Prize. Her work is translated into twenty languages, and in 2000, she won the IMPAC Award for Wide Open. In 2003, Nicola Barker was named a Granta Best of British Novelist. She lives in London.
"Barker's weird imagination works wonders...Exceptional." -- Elle"The brilliance of Barker's style is beyond question." -- The Spectator"The diversity of Barker's imagination is stunning; her language, witty and exact." -- Daily Telegraph (London)"An exasperating, beguiling, and occasionally damn-ner perfect piece of work [by an] infuratingly talented British author." -- Kirkus Reviews on Behindlings"Nicola Barker has a rare writing talent." -- Time Out (London)"Barker's earthy, inventive, hilarious, and wickedly satirical novel is enormously entertaining." -- Booklist"Her vision is unique, funny, dark, sarcastic and clever." -- Alain de Botton"Barker's narrative draws us in with the disturbing, surreal touch of a latter-day Lewis Carroll." -- Sunday Times (London)"Dazzling...She celebrates the complexity of human experience." -- London Times"The plot doesn't just twist, it leaps and back-flips and does triple somersaults..." -- New York Times Book Review
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