![]() ![]() Because Barrett "has always stood for more than an acid casualty. "How can such a brief, tragic life justify a 440-page biography?" asked John Walsh in the Independent of Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman. which ranks alongside EF Benson's Tilling as an irresistible comic destination. When placed among her ambitious body of work, this will primarily be seen as an 'entertainment'." According to Suzi Feay in the Financial Times, "the Yorkshire village of Burley Cross" is one of Barker's "finest creations. "However, there is the nagging feeling throughout that Barker is coasting. "Barker's knack for skewering the mores of the chattering classes remains strong, and a number of sparkling comic set-pieces stand out," contended Nick Garrard in the Independent on Sunday. "W hat emerges is a vastly satisfying and adventurous novel, a state-of-the-nation comedy from a novelist who can do pretty much anything she likes and is having a great time doing it." So wrote Tim Martin in the Daily Telegraph of Burley Cross Postbox Theft, by Nicola Barker, "an even more purely comic work than her sprawling, much-acclaimed and periodically unhinged Darkmans (2007)," which "sets itself the task of revivifying the famously creaky and now largely neglected tradition of the epistolary novel". ![]()
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