Nicola Barker
From the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, the short stories in ‘Love Your Enemies’ present a loving depiction of the beautiful, the grotesque and the utterly bizarre in the lives of overlooked suburban Britons.
Layla Carter, 16, from North London, is utterly overwhelmed by her plus-size nose. Rosemary, recently widowed and the ambivalent owner of a bipolar tomcat, meets a satyr in her kitchen and asks, ‘Can I feel your fur?’
In these ten enticingly strange short stories, a series of marginalised characters seek truth in the obsession and oppression of everyday existence, via a canine custody battle, sex in John Lewis and some strangely expressive desserts.
Reviews of Love Your Enemies
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- ‘One of the most exhilarating, audacious and ballsy writers of her generation’ Observer
- ‘Barker’s writing is an antidote to, a laughing cure to, and an energiser for the more moribund forms of Englishness and English fiction’ Ali Smith, Guardian
- ‘Like Roald Dahl, Barker can take a commonplace situation – cooking a meal, starting a diet, taking in a stray – and use it to bounce off into a surreal fantasy world’ Independent
More from Nicola Barker
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Burley Cross Postbox Theft
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Burley Cross Postbox Theft
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In the Approaches
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In the Approaches
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Burley Cross Postbox Theft
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Darkmans
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Darkmans
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Clear: A Transparent Novel
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In the Approaches
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In the Approaches
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In the Approaches
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The Yips
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The Yips
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The Yips
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Wide Open
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Five Miles from Outer Hope
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Heading Inland
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Clear
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Five Miles from Outer Hope
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Wide Open
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Heading Inland
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Behindlings
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Darkmans
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Burley Cross Postbox Theft
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Burley Cross Postbox Theft
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Darkmans
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Clear: A Transparent Novel
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Reversed Forecast / Small Holdings
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The Three Button Trick: Selected stories
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Love Your Enemies
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Reversed Forecast
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Reversed Forecast
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Small Holdings
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Burley Cross Postbox Theft
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Small Holdings
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