Will This House Last Forever?

I loved this delicate and engaging story of love and grief so much that it made me wish I was still a bookseller so I could press it into the hands of all my customers... It's so honest and beautifully written I loved this delicate and engaging story of love and grief so much that it made me wish I was still a bookseller so I could press it into the hands of all my customers... It's so honest and beautifully written I loved this delicate and engaging story of love and grief so much that it made me wish I was still a bookseller so I could press it into the hands of all my customers... It's so honest and beautifully written Heartbreaking... beautifully written * The Times * Heartbreaking... beautifully written * The Times * Heartbreaking... beautifully written * The Times * This book counts the true cost of having a writer in the family. Meticulously, Xanthi Barker traces the fault lines of her fractured relationship with her father back through his own marriage, all the way to her grandparents' union: the original, generative source of their poetry and pain. This is a fearless debut: potent and intensely moving This book counts the true cost of having a writer in the family. Meticulously, Xanthi Barker traces the fault lines of her fractured relationship with her father back through his own marriage, all the way to her grandparents' union: the original, generative source of their poetry and pain. This is a fearless debut: potent and intensely moving This book counts the true cost of having a writer in the family. Meticulously, Xanthi Barker traces the fault lines of her fractured relationship with her father back through his own marriage, all the way to her grandparents' union: the original, generative source of their poetry and pain. This is a fearless debut: potent and intensely moving It felt such a privilege to read this book. Raw, devastating, beautifully formed. Let's keep our eye on Barker It felt such a privilege to read this book. Raw, devastating, beautifully formed. Let's keep our eye on Barker It felt such a privilege to read this book. Raw, devastating, beautifully formed. Let's keep our eye on Barker Barker's attempt to triangulate a void is haunting. Yet even from the depths her memories glow with life, the writing gleams with precision Barker's attempt to triangulate a void is haunting. Yet even from the depths her memories glow with life, the writing gleams with precision Barker's attempt to triangulate a void is haunting. Yet even from the depths her memories glow with life, the writing gleams with precision 'Nuanced, moving and absorbing... open, youthful and uncensored... extraordinary * Observer * 'Nuanced, moving and absorbing... open, youthful and uncensored... extraordinary * Observer * 'Nuanced, moving and absorbing... open, youthful and uncensored... extraordinary * Observer * The story of a relationship defined by departures... arresting and beautifully written * The Bookseller (Editor's Choice, June) * The story of a relationship defined by departures... arresting and beautifully written * The Bookseller (Editor's Choice, June) * The story of a relationship defined by departures... arresting and beautifully written * The Bookseller (Editor's Choice, June) * Conveys brilliantly the maddening experience of loving someone who is absent when present and present when absent... I was drawn in by her intense prose. A great new talent Conveys brilliantly the maddening experience of loving someone who is absent when present and present when absent... I was drawn in by her intense prose. A great new talent Conveys brilliantly the maddening experience of loving someone who is absent when present and present when absent... I was drawn in by her intense prose. A great new talent [An] eloquent, moving memoir * Stylist * [An] eloquent, moving memoir * Stylist * [An] eloquent, moving memoir * Stylist * Wonderful - an elegy of sorts, yet wholly fresh and unsentimental Wonderful - an elegy of sorts, yet wholly fresh and unsentimental Wonderful - an elegy of sorts, yet wholly fresh and unsentimental A radiant book. I missed Xanthi Barker's wise, perceptive voice the moment I finished it. Vivid, evocative and addictive, without losing any of its meditative grace A radiant book. I missed Xanthi Barker's wise, perceptive voice the moment I finished it. Vivid, evocative and addictive, without losing any of its meditative grace A radiant book. I missed Xanthi Barker's wise, perceptive voice the moment I finished it. Vivid, evocative and addictive, without losing any of its meditative grace As well as offering a powerful evocation of loss, it is also wonderfully funny, brilliantly astute in its observation of everyday life, and beautifully written * Litro * As well as offering a powerful evocation of loss, it is also wonderfully funny, brilliantly astute in its observation of everyday life, and beautifully written * Litro * As well as offering a powerful evocation of loss, it is also wonderfully funny, brilliantly astute in its observation of everyday life, and beautifully written * Litro * Beautifully explores Barker's relationship with her father... and the experience of losing an 'eccentric, charismatic' man * Image * Beautifully explores Barker's relationship with her father... and the experience of losing an 'eccentric, charismatic' man * Image * Beautifully explores Barker's relationship with her father... and the experience of losing an 'eccentric, charismatic' man * Image * An extraordinary book, searingly personal, and unflinching in the way it deals with tricky emotional terrain.... Truly one to treasure * Culturefly * An extraordinary book, searingly personal, and unflinching in the way it deals with tricky emotional terrain.... Truly one to treasure * Culturefly * An extraordinary book, searingly personal, and unflinching in the way it deals with tricky emotional terrain.... Truly one to treasure * Culturefly *