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“A hilarious, good-natured ode to all the wonderful messiness of domesticity.” —Newsday
“Warm and sunny . . . Barker draws us in by means of endearing characters; a keen, if neurotic wit, and a touch that is as homey as a terry-cloth bathrobe.” —People
“The comic voices are virtuoso and the immediacy of Venetia’s jottings tell it like it is—and it is very, very funny.” —The Independent (London)
“Pleasantly daffy.” —The Boston Globe
“Rafaella Barker is so good at drawing her characters. . . that within about twenty pages you feel you know them intimately and a few pages later you are almost as concerned about them as you are your real friends.” —Daily Express (London)
“A sharply drawn and wickedly funny cast of supporting characters . . . this is an utterly charming feel-good novel.” —Booklist
“Raffaella Barker’s wistful prose fills your head with soft, luminous Cezanne-like images only to be disturbed by the lively, but loveable children who run through the story . . . as you draw to the close you’ve come to care passionately about Venetia and a possible happy ending.” —The Daily Mail (London)
“Breezy yet surprisingly tender. . . . The reader needn’t be a parent to appreciate this sweetly funny ode to single motherhood.” —Publishers Weekly
“My advice is not to read Summertime in public. You’ll giggle, you’ll snort, you’ll make an exhibition of yourself.” —Country Life
“Venetia Summers has been compared by earlier reviewers to Bridget Jones, but Barker’s freshness and wit give her character a softer and more believable image . . . truly charming.” —Library Journal
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“Warm and sunny . . . Barker draws us in by means of endearing characters; a keen, if neurotic wit, and a touch that is as homey as a terry-cloth bathrobe.” —People
“The comic voices are virtuoso and the immediacy of Venetia’s jottings tell it like it is—and it is very, very funny.” —The Independent (London)
“Pleasantly daffy.” —The Boston Globe
“Rafaella Barker is so good at drawing her characters. . . that within about twenty pages you feel you know them intimately and a few pages later you are almost as concerned about them as you are your real friends.” —Daily Express (London)
“A sharply drawn and wickedly funny cast of supporting characters . . . this is an utterly charming feel-good novel.” —Booklist
“Raffaella Barker’s wistful prose fills your head with soft, luminous Cezanne-like images only to be disturbed by the lively, but loveable children who run through the story . . . as you draw to the close you’ve come to care passionately about Venetia and a possible happy ending.” —The Daily Mail (London)
“Breezy yet surprisingly tender. . . . The reader needn’t be a parent to appreciate this sweetly funny ode to single motherhood.” —Publishers Weekly
“My advice is not to read Summertime in public. You’ll giggle, you’ll snort, you’ll make an exhibition of yourself.” —Country Life
“Venetia Summers has been compared by earlier reviewers to Bridget Jones, but Barker’s freshness and wit give her character a softer and more believable image . . . truly charming.” —Library Journal
For a year, Venetia Summers has been buffered from single motherhood by her boy-friend, David, but when work takes him to a Brazilian rain forest, things begin to unravel. Phone lines crackle, e-mails languish unanswered, and long-distance love proves to be a bewildering experience. Meanwhile, Venetia’s children and dogs run wilder than ever, brother Desmond’s outrageous wedding takes over her home, and her relationship with an eccentric new neighbor gets off to an unfortunate start. Still, there are the everyday rewards, not least among them the dazzling beauty of the changing Norfolk seasons.
How is Venetia to cope alone with an army-style camping holiday, a foul-mouthed Amazonian parrot, and the demanding, if endearing, personalities of three exuberant children? Her burgeoning fashion career, creating outlandish garments for a London boutique, provides much-needed diversion. But when a moonlit walk takes an unexpected turn, she finds herself with a real dilemma on her hands.
With Summertime, Raffaella Barker, whom Publishers Weekly called “a postmodern Erma Bombeck,” gives us another sparkling comedy of English rural life, sure to delight fans of her first novel, Hens Dancing, and new readers alike.
How is Venetia to cope alone with an army-style camping holiday, a foul-mouthed Amazonian parrot, and the demanding, if endearing, personalities of three exuberant children? Her burgeoning fashion career, creating outlandish garments for a London boutique, provides much-needed diversion. But when a moonlit walk takes an unexpected turn, she finds herself with a real dilemma on her hands.
With Summertime, Raffaella Barker, whom Publishers Weekly called “a postmodern Erma Bombeck,” gives us another sparkling comedy of English rural life, sure to delight fans of her first novel, Hens Dancing, and new readers alike.
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