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Five Miles from Outer Hope

English

By (author): Nicola Barker

The sly and subversive sixth book from Nicola Barker, one of our most funny and anarchic writers.

It's the summer of 1981. Medve, sixteen years old and six foot three inches tall (a positive girl giant) is stuck in a semi-derelict art-deco hotel on a tiny island off the South coast of Devon, with the rest of her crazy family members. There's nothing to do but paint Margaret Thatcher mugs to supplement the meagre family income, wait for Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love' to come out and dream of literary murderer Jack Henry Abbott.

Into this family affair, strolls 19-year-old La Roux (The Sauce), a deserter from the South African army with flaming ginger hair. Its not long before Medve and La Roux embark on a barbed flirtation, full of simmering sexuality and bad intentions, which ends in the very destructive Operation Vagina things will never be the same again.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 150g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Apr 2011
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780007435739

About Nicola Barker

Nicola Barker was born in Ely in 1966 and spent part of her childhood in South Africa. She lives and works in east London. She was the winner of the David Higham Prize for Fiction and joint winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Love Your Enemies her first collection of stories (1993). Her first novel Reversed Forecast was published in 1994 and a short novel Small Holdings followed in 1995. A second collection of short stories Heading Inland for which Nicola received an Arts Council Writers Award and received the 1997 John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. Her story Symbiosis was filmed and broadcast on BBC2; another story Dual Balls was commissioned for broadcast on Channel 4 and shortlisted for a BAFTA Award. Her third novel Wide Open was published in 1998 and won the English-speaking worlds biggest literary award for a single work the IMPAC Prize. In 2000 she published another short novel Five Miles from Outer Hope. Her fifth novel Behindlings was published in 2002 and the following novel Clear was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2004. Darkmans was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2007 the 2008 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Award and won the Hawthornden Prize for 2008. Most recently Barker's work THE YIPS has been longlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2012. She was named as one of the 20 Best Young British Novelists by Granta in 2005. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

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