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Nicola Barker

Wide Open Hardcover – 6 April 1998

by Nicola Barker (Author)

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A novel about stripping off layers of prejudice and lies, about the possibility of redemption, and laying bare the truth. It is also about coming to terms with the past, and about the fantasies people construct in order to protect their fragile inner selves.

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Publisher : Faber & Faber (6 April 1998)
Language : English
Hardcover : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0571193129
ISBN-13 : 978-0571193127
Dimensions : 20.45 x 2.82 x 16.48 cm

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zernager

A funny, very human book about a world where awful things happen

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2011

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This is my favourite of this author's books and she one of my favourite authors. Nicola Barker writes these idiosyncratic characters so effortlessly and the way she slams their lives into each other's is really exciting to read. The humour in this book is laugh-out-loud funny but this is the one of her novels that takes on a very black subject. And it does so in an intriguing way that will stay with you.

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D. C. Njoku

No great experience at all.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 June 2000

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I came to this book knowing it had just won a big prize. I had also heard that Barker's characters were hard to like. Both points made me think I'd enjoy the book, that I would find it a pleasurable challenge.
But I was disappointed. Yes, the characters are hard (replace that with impossible) to like - but so is the book. You don't care about the characters and you don't really want to know what happens to them. The only thing that can save a book in this situation is magically beautiful writing. But again Ms Barker doesn't deliver. She isn't a bad writer, but there's nothing exciting about her prose. It's rather bland and pedestrian.
So what is there to recommend this book? Nothing, as far as I can see. It's no great experience at all.

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lizzie

facinating book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2014

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amazing characters from the margins of society portrayed with clarity and empathy. A book you cant put down.

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cassie1

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2016

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Weird but held my interest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2014

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I bought this as the location is fairly local to me and this caught my interest. I enjoyed the book lots.

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