Summertime - Rilegato

`I loved it. I couldn't put it down... Raffaella Barker is so good at drawing her characters and making tham likeable that within about 10 pages you feel you know them intimately... Yes, this is comic writing, but it's quiet comedy rather than a raucous bark... very,very well done' (Daily Express)

'I loved it. I couldn't put it down... Raffaella Barker is so good at drawing her characters and making them likeable that within about ten pages you feel you know them intimately and a few pages later you are almost as concerned about them as you are your real friends.. Very, very well done' Daily Express

'The comic voices are virtuoso and the immediacy of Venetia's jottings tell it like it is - and it is very, very funny... SUMMERTIME is a mood altering book: as light and bright and optimistic as the days it celebrates' Polly Samson, Independent

'Raffaella Barker is refreshingly honest about children and dogs, chaotic parenting and farmyard manure... The comic voices are virtuoso, and the immediacy of Venetia's jottings tell it like it is - and it is very, very funny... a brilliant eye for contrasting the fantasy of bucolic childhoods with the reality... skilfully juxtaposes lyrical celebration of nature with a cynical eye to the realities of human foibles and bodily functions... It's a tonic to read something so infectiously cheerful... SUMMERTIME is a mood-altering book: as light and bright and optimistic as the days it celebrates' Polly Samson, Independent Weekend Review

'My advice is not to read SUMMERTIME in public. You'll giggle, you'll snort, you'll make an exhibition of yourself... I loved HENS DANCING, and this is better yet' Country Life

`light-as-a-feather but none the less entertaining novel' Sunday Times

A sequel to HENS DANCING to delight all who loved that tale of bohemian rural high life - and create new fans.