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    Heading Inland

    By Nicola Barker

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    Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore.

    Barker creates a wonderfully fantastical and unimaginable world: an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother through a secret belly-button zip; a wayward and yet enigmatic man attempts to rescue eels from an East End pie shop; a young woman discusses her fascination in other women’s breasts; a boy with his inside organs back to front desperately seeks attention; and a bitter old woman becomes bent on war with a tramp.

    This collection confirms Nicola Barker as one of the most versatile and original writers of her generation with a brilliant unconventional imagination she creates a new world that sparkles with dark humour.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateOct 27, 2011
    ISBN9780007455775
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    Nicola Barker

    Nicola Barker’s work has been translated into numerous languages, and received great critical acclaim and numerous prizes. Her work includes Love Your Enemies, Wide Open (International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Clear (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), Darkmans (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and The Yips (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). She was named as one of Granta’s 20 Best Young British Novelists by in 2005.

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      There's a real peculiar sensibility to these stories. Nicola is effective in creating a substantial glimpse into the lives of these strange beings and, though we cannot see what happens to them ten or twenty years from that point, there's a bit of a defining sense of the moments she brings us. In general, I prefer stories that sort of knock you over the head especially at the ending (like Flannery O'Connor's short stories) These are a great deal more subtle for the most part though it does have a couple of frantic scenes (like when a man is choking) but mainly the stories (some quite short) build like an unfathomable smile on one's face with an intelligent wryness characteristic of Barker.