Raffaella Barker erforscht in ihren Werken die Komplexität familiärer Beziehungen und die Suche nach Identität in unkonventionellen Umgebungen. Ihr Schreiben zeichnet sich durch scharfe Einblicke in die menschliche Psyche aus und verleiht Charakteren sowohl subtile Ironie als auch tiefes Verständnis. Barker befasst sich mit Themen des Erwachsenwerdens, der Suche nach dem eigenen Platz in der Welt und dem Konflikt zwischen Freiheit und Verantwortung. Ihre Prosa ist gekonnt und fesselnd und schöpft oft aus ihren eigenen Lebenserfahrungen, um atmosphärische Landschaften hervorzurufen.
Bridget Jones auf dem Lande! Als Venetia Summers' Mann sie ausgerechnet wegen seiner Masseurin verlässt, findet sie sich plötzlich als allein Erziehende mit drei Kindern auf dem Lande wieder. Doch Venetia lässt sich nicht unterkriegen. Wäre ja noch schöner, wenn sie nicht auch ohne Mann zurechtkommen würde! In mal urkomischen, mal herzzerreißend traurigen Geschichten zeichnet Venetia auf, wie sie mit der neuen Situation fertig wird und sie schließlich bewältigt.
Laura Sale turned down Guy Mildmay's marriage proposal and left Norfolk for a life in the London art world. Years later and disillusioned with the art scene, she meets Guy in a restaurant. Will she leave London and return to the country?
What do you do when you should be happy, but you're not? Who do you blame when you realise you don't love your husband any more? What can you change when you see your family is falling apart? What if you had the perfect life - and it turned out to be anything but?
Gabriella has many siblings and more animals. Her father is an impoverished poet, her mother a classicist. This is the story of Gabriella and her brothers, and their unorthodox childhood in this wayward family.
Venetia Summers appears to lead a fairytale rural existence with her husband and two sons in her tumbledown Norfolk cottage. But when her husband walks out on them, not even the arrival of a new baby can make up for the sense of loss she feels.
A soldier damaged by war. The inheritance of a lighthouse. A woman suspended in her life. A tale of love and human connection through generations.
Christy Naylor was forced to grow up quickly. Still reeling with anger after the death of her mother, she abandons college in order to help her father uproot from suburbia and start a new life on a swampy fish farm out in the sticks, a prize that he won in a shady game of poker. Amid this turmoil, looms the mysterious Mick Fleet, tall, powerful and charismatic. Unsettled and unsure of herself, Christy is hooked on his intense charm. She knows nothing about him yet she feels like she is being swallowed up in his embrace and she plunges into a love affair blind to the catastrophe he will bring.
POPPYLAND is a love story about two people who fall for each other through a series of coincidences. Ryder James meets Grace Hart the night her exhibition of paintings opens in Copenhagen. Both of them are loners, damaged by tragedy in their lives, both sceptical about love. But they have a connection that can't be broken, which takes them from their separate lives to Norfolk, where they both end up at the same time, bound together by a family event that neither of them knew the other was connected with. Romantic, elegiac, absorbing and quixotic, this love story for difficult people is a testament to the power of attraction. It's about the sea and land, about the past and how it shapes our futures, about how we find the right person to be with - a truly universal story.
In her exuberant, breezy new novel, Barker creates a thoroughly delightful, thoroughly British rural comedy starring a woman whose life resists any and all sense of order.
Raffaella Barker's captivating novel about love, the countryside, and an invisible woman starting to catch sight of herself again. Laura Sale is becoming increasingly frustrated by the relentless demands of her life as partner of a famous conceptual artist and mother to teenage twins. As Inigo grows ever more successful in London, Laura longs for the rural Norfolk of her childhood, and a chance meeting with her first love is the catalyst she needs. Staying in the cottage she remembers from long-ago holidays, Laura confronts old ghosts, ferrets, a goat and a collapsing relationship as she begins a new stage of her life - one lit with possibilities.
