With a pond and blackberry bushes, natch. Green Grass is gleeful, irreverent and touchingly wistful, a laugh-out-loud account of getting a life. Yes, the countryside is airy, but it is also muddy and wet, and home to rampaging goats and aggressive ferrets. Laura's wistful dreams are treated with wry, good humour, and some healthy reality. She longs to remember what makes her happy. Her daily routine of dividing her time between pandering to the demands of her challenging conceptual artist husband, Inigo, and those of their thirteen-year-old twins Dolly and Fred, has taken its toll. But she never lets cynicism or bleakness take hold instead her gaze is clear and hopeful. Green Grass by Barker, Raffaella Book The Fast Free Shipping EAN. Green Grass Summary Green Grass by Raffaella Barker Laura Sale has grown tired of her life. Raffaella Barker is not afraid to tell the truth about the infuriating nature of relationships with lovers, children, siblings and pets. It seems like the ultimate rural idyll, and as far away from the arty London scene as you can get. Guy is now a farmer, who has a sideline in natural bath products. Fuelled by nostalgic memories of summer holidays in Norfolk, Laura thinks that country life will solve all her ills, she'll have 'space to breathe', she may even ditch Inigo and his outrageous artistic demands for the man she was going to marry 20 years ago. There seems no space left for Laura's needs. Her twins, Dolly and Fred, are mostly loveable-except that Fred is constantly campaigning for a pet and Dolly is behaving 'like a temperamental opera diva'. Inigo, her conceptual-artist husband is attractive, but 'he's always been demanding and egocentric'. 'Somewhere on the way to becoming a 38-year-old mother of adolescents, a wife manqué for 14 years, she has left having fun behind.' Fun has been overtaken by the preoccupations of work and family.

Simply put, Laura has forgotten how to have a good time. Laura Sale, the star of Raffaella Barker's fifth novel, Green Grass, is pretty fed up.

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