A.L. Barker – författare

''Dauntingly fresh'' OBSERVER''Hot, sparkling and exciting'' INDEPENDENT''Mercurial and elusive'' ADAM MARS-JONESA. L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted Auberon Waugh to declare that she ''writes like an angel and I love her''.In her tenth collection of stories, Barker unfolds tales of cunning, fancy and shifting alliances. Here a young boy fosters grand illusions; a wife faces broken promises; a dutiful committee woman meets a sparky old gentleman; a witch is drowned; an intruder insinuates himself into a lonely woman''s holiday; and commonplace superstition mingles effortlessly with submerged desire.