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'This book is heaven. Elspeth Barker writes like no one else'<BR>OLIVIA LAING<BR><BR>'Deserves to be permanently on the bedside table - to cheer, reassure and inspire'<BR>OBSERVER<BR><BR>'Gothic, poetic and exuberantly funny. What a pleasure it was to read'<BR>ESTHER FREUD<BR><BR>'Joyous, startling, funny, lush, dark and complex'<BR>THE TIMES<BR><BR>In Notes from the Henhouse, you will find:<BR><BR>A Gothic castle, a draughty Norfolk farmhouse and a malevolent Aga<BR><BR>A pet pig, Portia with a penchant for drama, an obsession with geraniums and an addiction to wine (the Bulgarian vintage)<BR><BR>George Barker, poet and beloved husband, warbling cowboy songs into his glass and declaiming Hopkins and Houseman in The Drinking Room<BR><BR>Five entrancing baby cherubimos, rolling and bouncing about in a big brass bed, before growing up at breakneck speed<BR><BR>The ecstasy of writing, the dither of procrastination, and the endless adventures to be had in the wild realms of the imagination<BR><BR>The outrage of death, the loneliness of widowhood, and then the surprising joys of dereliction: of moving very slowly round the garden in a shapeless coat, planting drifts of narcissus bulbs for latter springs.<BR><BR>This collection of autobiographical essays from the inimitable Elspeth Barker, author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia, is a delightful portrait of a riotous, rapturous, remarkable life.
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