Come and Tell Me Some Lies

by RaffaellaBarker (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

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  Raffaela Barker is the daughter of poet George Barker and novelist Elspeth Barker. This book is an account of her extraordinary childhood up to and including the death of her father. Lyrical, funny and honest, it tells of a father/daughter relationship, of a childhood spent in Bohemian poverty in rural Norfolk with four siblings and numerous step-siblings.

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  2000

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  Gabriella has many siblings and more animals. Her father is an impoverished poet with a penchant for mending cars with string and optimism, her mother a classicist now more concerned with trying to keep track of spiralling chaotic family life than the declining of verbs. Gabriella and her brothers run amuck through the attics and wilderness garden of their home, Mildney. Here she observes and experiences the triumphs and pitfalls of belonging to a wayward family, and longs for conformity. Her failure to achieve it is absolute.

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.21