Praise for Raffaella Barker:

‘It should be read for the tranquillising effect of Barker’s elegantly glittering prose and the gentle mockery that greets Venetia’s endless domestic mishaps … a disarmingly wry and engaging narrator with a keen eye for nature and a shrewd insight into the follies of urban chic’

Financial Times

‘A fine, spiky sense of humour’ Daily Telegraph

‘I loved it. I couldn’t put it down … Raffaella Barker is so good at drawing her characters and making them likable that within about ten pages you feel you know them intimately’

Daily Express

‘An engaging work, sewn up with a dry line in wit’

Scotland on Sunday

‘She writes beautifully, gathering intensity … combining, with apparent ease, emotion and admirable precision’

Independent

‘Raffaella Barker is a writer of talent’ Times Literary Supplement

‘This charming novel overflows with eccentric characters … a satisfying mix of entertaining domestic disasters and musings on kitten heels, hens and new love’ Daily Mail

‘Her writing and characters are beautifully formed and controlled with inconsequential moments adding to the charm … pure therapy: Barker’s books are good for you’

Country Life

‘A light, bright and optimistic read … throw yourself down on the sand, dive between those silken sheets or luxuriate on the shag-pile, and enjoy it – I certainly did’ Literary Review