A metatextual farce set during a house viewing in Llandudno is a timely critique of political and narrative authority Nicola Barker is literary royalty. Her last novel, the visionary dystopiaH(a)ppy, won the Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction. Her territories are large, fertile and expanding. She is Queen of the Hinterlands of Quirk but also Empress of the Quotidian. Time and again, while reading I Am Sovereign, I thought a detail or name had been invented by Barker because it seemed comica...
A metatextual farce set during a house viewing in Llandudno is a timely critique of political and narrative authority Nicola Barker is literary royalty. Her last novel, the visionary dystopiaH(a)ppy, won the Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction. Her territories are large, fertile and expanding. She is Queen of the Hinterlands of Quirk but also Empress of the Quotidian. Time and again, while reading I Am Sovereign, I thought a detail or name had been invented by Barker because it seemed comica...
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