Matthew Dennison

Not quite romantic fiction, or literary fiction, or commercial fiction – but still quite good

A review of From a Distance, by Raffaella Barker. Falling in love and flying the nest in Cornwall and Norfolk

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  • From a Distance

    Raffaella Barker

    Bloomsbury, pp. 336

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