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Description for The Yips
Paperback. The hilarious Man Booker-longlisted novel from the author of 'Darkmans' and 'The Burley Cross Postbox Theft'. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 36. Weight in Grams: 394. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
The hilarious Man Booker-longlisted novel from the author of ‘Darkmans’ and ‘The Burley Cross Postbox Theft’.
2006 is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Tiger Woods' reputation is entirely untarnished and the English Defence League does not exist. But storm-clouds are gathering above the bar of the less-than-exclusive Thistle Hotel in Luton.
Among those caught up in the unfolding drama are a man who's survived cancer seven times, a woman priest with an unruly fringe, the troubled family ... Read more
But at the heart of every intrigue and the bottom of every mystery is the repugnantly charismatic Stuart Ransom – a golf star in free-fall.
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Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007476664
SKU
KAK0002925
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Nicola Barker
Nicola Barker was born in Ely in 1966 and spent part of her childhood in South Africa. She lives and works in east London. She was the winner of the David Higham Prize for Fiction and joint winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Love Your Enemies, her first collection of stories (1993). Her first novel Reversed Forecast was ... Read more
Reviews for The Yips
‘Barker is ostensibly a comic writer, and is indeed snort-inducingly funny at times … What’s more – just about uniquely in this country – she is thinking intelligently and critically about how to make [a realist] tradition work in the present day. But it’s not for her virtue that she deserves to be read; it’s for pleasure.’ Keith Miller, Daily ... Read more