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This book is heaven. Elspeth Barker writes like no one else. -- Olivia Laing, author of CRUDO What a pleasure it was to read Notes from the Henhouse. An original voice, gothic, poetic and exuberantly funny. -- Esther Freud, author of HIDEOUS KINKY Elspeth Barker speaks her mind fearlessly, and her mind is scintillating. Witty, caustic, erudite - as fiercely funny in writing about heartbreak and mortality as she is about drunken dinner parties and delinquent dogs. -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett A masterclass in the art of the personal essay. These pieces - about pigs, and loss, and the delicate balance between art and life - are vital, and funny, and true. Though memoir, they have a powerful ambiguity, like the very best short stories. -- Charlie Gilmour, author of FEATHERHOOD Elspeth Barker is magnificent, the most underrated British writer of the last century. I loved Notes from the Henhouse so much. Laugh-out-loud funny, sad and beautiful, these essays are a revelation, full of love and joy and life lessons (never go for a man who will intentionally step on a frog and be pragmatic about hens). I will read them again and again. -- Camilla Grudova, author of CHILDREN OF PARADISE

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Elspeth Barker was the author of O Caledonia, a novel hailed as a 'sparky, funny work of genius' (Ali Smith). She taught Latin at what she described as 'a naughty girls' school' on the Norfolk coast and worked as a tutor and lecturer in creative writing at the Norwich School of Art and Design. She wrote for the Independent, the Observer, the Sunday Times and the London Review of Books. Elspeth was married to the poet George Barker. She died in 2022.

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