Raffaella Barker Volgorde van de boeken

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.