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Will This House Last Forever?

Xanthi Barker
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      'It felt such a privilege to read this book. Raw, devastating, beautifully formed. Let's keep our eye on Barker' Daisy Johnson'Wonderful - an elegy of sorts, yet wholly fresh and unsentimental' Sara BaumeWhen Xanthi Barker's father died when she was in her mid twenties, she could make no sense of her grief for a man who had been absent for most of her life. Her father, poet Sebastian Barker, had left Xanthi, her mother and her brother to pursue writing and a new relationship, when Xanthi was a baby. Growing up she had always struggled to reconcile his extravagant affection - a rocking horse crafted from scavenged wood, the endless stream of poems and drawings and letters, conversations that spiralled from the structure of starlight to philosophy to Bruce Springsteen - with the fact that he could not be depended upon for more everyday things. Though theirs was a relationship defined by departures, he always returned, so why should this farewell be any different, or more final?WILL THIS HOUSE LAST FOREVER? is a heartfelt and wholly original memoir about the pain of having to come to terms with a parent's mortality, the way grief so utterly defies logic, and about learning to see the flaws in those that we love, and let them go.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Xanthi Barker EAN: 9781472274458 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Headline Publishing Group DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-06-24 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement WIDTH: 153 cm SPINE:

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      Memoirs, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement

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      Xanthi Barker was born in London where she still lives. Her fiction has been published in Litro and MsLexia, and shortlisted for the Fish Prize. 'Paradoxical', the first chapter of WILL THIS HOUSE LAST FOREVER?, was highly commended in the 2018 Spread the Word Life Writing Prize. Her novelette ONE THING is published by Open Pen.
      'It felt such a privilege to read this book. Raw, devastating, beautifully formed. Let's keep our eye on Barker' Daisy Johnson'Wonderful - an elegy of sorts, yet wholly fresh and unsentimental' Sara BaumeWhen Xanthi Barker's father died when she was in her mid twenties, she could make no sense of her grief for a man who had been absent for most of her life. Her father, poet Sebastian Barker, had left Xanthi, her mother and her brother to pursue writing and a new relationship, when Xanthi was a baby. Growing up she had always struggled to reconcile his extravagant affection - a rocking horse crafted from scavenged wood, the endless stream of poems and drawings and letters, conversations that spiralled from the structure of starlight to philosophy to Bruce Springsteen - with the fact that he could not be depended upon for more everyday things. Though theirs was a relationship defined by departures, he always returned, so why should this farewell be any different, or more final?WILL THIS HOUSE LAST FOREVER? is a heartfelt and wholly original memoir about the pain of having to come to terms with a parent's mortality, the way grief so utterly defies logic, and about learning to see the flaws in those that we love, and let them go.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Xanthi Barker EAN: 9781472274458 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Headline Publishing Group DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-06-24 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement WIDTH: 153 cm SPINE:

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      Xanthi Barker was born in London where she still lives. Her fiction has been published in Litro and MsLexia, and shortlisted for the Fish Prize. 'Paradoxical', the first chapter of WILL THIS HOUSE LAST FOREVER?, was highly commended in the 2018 Spread the Word Life Writing Prize. Her novelette ONE THING is published by Open Pen.

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