Come and Tell Me Some Lies

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Synopsis

Gabriella has many siblings and more animals. Her father is an impoverished poet with a penchant for mending cars with string and optimism, her mother a classicist now more concerned with trying to keep track of spiralling chaotic family life than the declining of verbs. Gabriella and her brothers run amuck through the attics and wilderness garden of their home, Mildney. Here she observes and experiences the triumphs and pitfalls of belonging to a wayward family, and longs for conformity. Her failure to achieve it is absolute.

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Published
06/07/2000

Publisher
Headline Book Publishing

ISBN
9780747264811

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Jacket review

'She writes beautifully... Combining, with apparent ease, emotion and admirable precision' -- Independent on Sunday 'The whole is suffused with love. To write well and with such open-hearted affection is an achievement' -- Observer

UK Kirkus review

The author, the daughter of the late poet George Barker and the writer Elspeth Barker, has created a thinly fictionalized account of growing up in a bohemian household, but no less entertaining for that. Gabriella and her sisters and brothers grow up in a damp East Anglian farmhouse, where parents are apt to embarrass the children and nothing is secure, except love. Barker has a gentle, lulling style, perfect for filling a long autumn evening. (Kirkus UK)