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Nicola Barker conjures up a fantastical world where an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother through a belly-button zip, a disgruntled job applicant steals his interviewer's garden pond and a new father feeds his hand to an owl. Her imagination is truly weird and wonderful, but what makes these stories work so well is that they are based on reality - a woman falls in love with her husband because his buttons are done up wrongly, a bitter old woman tries to trick a tramp, a man frees eels from an East End pie shop, a bride throws a tantrum on her wedding day. This collection brings to life a world which simmers just below the surface of the imagination, proving again that Nicola Barker is one of the most original young writers of her generation
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‘Strange and magical...Barker goes from strength to strength.’ Sunday Telegraph
‘A singular, soaring, stratospheric talent.’ Scotland on Sunday
‘Devastatingly funny and totally original...only Will Self can match her for black humour and bizarre fabrications...No one else in England writes like this. Don’t miss this book.’ Tatler
‘A witty, demotic and unique talent.’ The Times
‘The language is unfussy, direct, at times colloquial, and then, just when it is needed to produce the right emotional counterpoint, elegant and formal...What could have been heavy-handed in another writer’s hands is here transformed into something light, enchanting and moving. Heading Inland achieves everything it sets out to do. Highly recommended.’ Literary Review
‘Another extremely accomplished collection. The writing is sharp, intricate and stylish. Each story presents its own particular and perfectly realized world...Nothing is too weird or too ordinary for Nicola Barker. I can think of few writers who can make me think of Joe Orton one minute and Saul Bellow the next.’ Guardian
Nicola Barker was born in 1966 and lives and works in Hackney
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0571190529
- ISBN 13 9780571190522
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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