Green Grass - Hardcover

Barker really succeeds in capturing the changing weather of the family, its shifting alliances and collusions... [The twins] just about steal the show and are refreshingly free of stereotype while embodying the full flavour of "baleful, leg-swinging" adolescence... the reader comes to care very much that this family should stay together... A feelgood, holiday read (Independent [The Friday Book])

A playful skit on contemporary mores (The Times)

Touching, honest and often very funny...Raffaella Barker's art is camouflaged by a lightness of touch and a seemingly effortless ear for dialogue. She beguiles the reader while exploring the difficult terrain of family life and marriages... And she has an acute eye for the idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of children (Alexandra Pringle, Tatler)

Barker has a light touch and a way with words that leaves you gasping - with laughter, as much as anything... it's her interpretation of the human domestic comedy that makes her work so irresistible (Marie Claire)

Pure therapy: Barker's books are good for you (Country Life)

When teenage Laura Sale turned down Guy Mildmay's marriage proposal, she had no inkling that their paths would cross again. She'd wanted to spread her wings, Guy to remain a Norfolk farmer. But when, years later, they meet in a chic London organic restaurant, Laura is at a turning-point. Disillusioned with life as partner to an installation artist (speciality: the Mobius strip) she finds herself drawn back to the countryside of her childhood holidays. Guy revives powerful memories - and could Laura ever work things out with the often-infuriating, supremely urban Inigo? Raffaella Barker has written a hilarious tale of bad-tempered goats, art-world excess and frantic text messages - and of a woman's yearning for the vivid expression of life that only the countryside makes possible.