Raffaella Barker — Green Grass

Review 2002 Hardback 376 When teenage Laura Sale turned down Guy Mildmay's marriage proposal, she had no inkling that their paths would cross again. She'd wanted to spread her wings, Guy to remain a Norfolk farmer. But when, years later, they meet in a chic London organic restaurant, Laura is at a turning-point. Disillusioned with life as partner to an installation artist (speciality: the Mobius strip) she finds herself drawn back to the countryside of her childhood holidays. Guy revives powerful memories - and could Laura ever work things out with the often-infuriating, supremely urban Inigo? Raffaella Barker has written a hilarious tale of bad-tempered goats, art-world excess and frantic text messages - and of a woman's yearning for the vivid expression of life that only the countryside makes possible. No DJ. Pages tanning. Good