'Dauntingly fresh' OBSERVER 'Hot, sparkling and exciting' INDEPENDENT 'Mercurial and elusive' ADAM MARS-JONES A. L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted Auberon Waugh to declare that she 'writes like an angel and I love her'. In her tenth collection of stories, Barker unfolds tales of cunning, fancy and shifting alliances. Here a young boy fosters grand illusions; a wife faces broken promises; a dutiful committee woman meets a sparky old ...
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'Dauntingly fresh' OBSERVER 'Hot, sparkling and exciting' INDEPENDENT 'Mercurial and elusive' ADAM MARS-JONES A. L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted Auberon Waugh to declare that she 'writes like an angel and I love her'. In her tenth collection of stories, Barker unfolds tales of cunning, fancy and shifting alliances. Here a young boy fosters grand illusions; a wife faces broken promises; a dutiful committee woman meets a sparky old gentleman; a witch is drowned; an intruder insinuates himself into a lonely woman's holiday; and commonplace superstition mingles effortlessly with submerged desire.
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Add this copy of Submerged to cart. $93.63, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2002 by Virago.
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None. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. A very scarce first edition of this short story collection from Audrey Lilian Barker. The very scarce first edition, first impression. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.  With a newspaper clipping of a dedication article for the author tipped in by previous owner.  A wonderful collection of seven short stories from English writer Audrey Lilian Barker-the tenth and final of her collections, which was being prepared when Barker sadly passed away.  With an introduction by Jane Gardam.  During her lifetime, Barker published ten collections of short stories and eleven novels, one of which – John Brown's Body – was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970. In the original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is also very smart with light edgewear. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine.
