Nicola Barker

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March 30, 1966 in The United Kingdom

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Nicola Barker (born March 30, 1966, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England) is an English novelist and short story writer. Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations, and has a fondness for bleak, isolated settings.

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Average rating: 3.54 · 1,453 ratings · 302 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Darkmans 3.58 avg rating — 749 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Wide Open (Thames Gateway, #1) 3.39 avg rating — 152 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Clear A Transparent Novel 3.34 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Behindlings: A Novel (Thames Gateway, #2) 3.45 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Burley Cross Postbox Theft 3.46 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Three Button Trick and Other Stories 3.55 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Five Miles From Outer Hope 3.51 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Heading Inland 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Reversed Forecast 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Small Holdings 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“I dreamed I saw you dead in a place by the water. A ravaged place. All flat and empty and wide open. And you were covered in some kind of binding. Like a mummy. Something white and reflective, from head to toe. And the light shone on you. Oh, how it shone on you! It glanced off you, and it was like a pure, bright silver. The wind was singing. It sang: you have suffered enough. You have suffered enough. Then death came and he kissed you. Lightly. Gently. Upon the lips. There is nothing beyond, he whispered, only me, only me. There is nothing beyond. Only me.”
― Nicola Barker, Wide Open

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“You think it's all rather too "New Age" to be taken seriously, eh?'
'Not at all.'
'But it's an ancient discipline...'
'New Age disciplines invariably are,' Beede said, disparagingly, 'but in the modern world they lack context - we just pick them up and then toss them back down again, we consume them. They have no moral claim on us. No moral value. And without that they're rendered meaningless, fatuous, even.”
― Nicola Barker, Darkmans

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“And it was that self-same summer—June 5th, if precision is your watchword—that I first set eyes on a stringy southern hemisphere home-boy, a man-boy, a prankish puck by the name of La Roux (with very bad skin and even worse instincts), who sailed into the slow-beating heart of our half-arsed, high-strung, low-bred family, then casually capsized himself, but left us all drowning (now they don’t teach you that at the Sea Scouts, do they?).”
― Nicola Barker, Five Miles From Outer Hope

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