Love Your Enemies
by Nicola Barker
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From the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, the short stories in 'Love Your Enemies' present a loving depiction of the beautiful, the grotesque and the utterly bizarre in the lives of overlooked suburban Britons. Layla Carter, 16, from North London, is utterly overwhelmed by her plus-size nose. Rosemary, recently widowed and the ambivalent owner of a bipolar tomcat, meets a satyr in her kitchen and asks, 'Can I feel your fur?' In these ten enticingly strange short stories, a series of show more marginalised characters seek truth in the obsession and oppression of everyday existence, via a canine custody battle, sex in John Lewis and some strangely expressive desserts. show lessTags
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edwinbcn Hilarious stories: suppress your laughter or deal with people looking at you.
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Nicola Barker is a Senior Lecturer at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK.
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- Original publication date
- 1993
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
