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A. L. Barker's engrossing novel looks at the life of a middle-aged storyteller, her fictional world and the individuals who inhabit it. Characters such as Mrs McSweeny and her husband Murdo who receive hallucinatory information about the Second Coming; or Elinor Dunphy, an elegant older woman visited by a beautiful and free-spirited young man who makes veiled sexual overtures to her; or Lalla, a divorcee, who falls in love with her son's form-master, only to learn that his apparent advances to her are just a cover for his passion for her son. These humorous yet tragic vignettes are all concerned with unfulfilled and usually perverted sexual relations - but how do they relate to the narrator's own successful marriage?

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Religious & spiritual fiction

• Full title: Woman Who Talked to Herself
• Subtitle: An Articulated Novel
• Author: A. L. Barker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186
• EAN: 9780571259120
• ISBN: 057125912X
• ID: 04624144
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 220 g
• Dimensions: 279 × 198 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. January 2010

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