Poppy land - Rafaella barker

'Both lyrical and real, light and darkly full of yearnings for a profound and lifelong love'

Good Housekeeping

On a freezing cold night in an unfamiliar city, a man meets a woman. The encounter lasts just moments, they part barely knowing one another's names, they make no plans to meet again. But both are left breathless.

Five years on, the man and the woman are living separate lives, thousands of miles apart. But both still think about that night.

So if they were to meet again, you'd think, this time, they'd do whatever it took to hold on to each other. But can it be that simple? Or will real life get in the way?

More praise for Poppyland:

Barker is drawn repeatedly to the wheeling desolation of the Norfolk coast - this vivid evocation leaps off the page, as do the delightful snapshots revealing the hot-breathed collision of family life'

Independent

"An insightful, highly readable novel'

Daily Express

Barker gathers confidence and power with each novel, and Poppyland is a rich, confident and emotionally