Will This House Last Forever? av Xanthi Barker

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<p><b><font></b><b>''Completely original, raw and warm'' <i>Evening Standard </i>Books of the Summer</b><br><b>''Poignant... written with intelligence and tears'' Ben Okri</b><br><b>''Nuanced, absorbing and moving... extraordinary'' <i>Observer</i></b><br><b>''Raw, poetic, beautifully formed'' Daisy Johnson</b><b></font></b><br><br>When Xanthi Barker''s father died when she was in her mid twenties, she could make no sense of her grief for a man who had been absent for most of her life. Her father, poet Sebastian Barker, had left Xanthi, her mother and her brother to pursue writing and a new relationship, when Xanthi was a baby. Growing up she had always struggled to reconcile his extravagant affection - a rocking horse crafted from scavenged wood, the endless stream of poems and drawings and letters, conversations that spiralled from the structure of starlight to philosophy to Bruce Springsteen - with the fact that he could not be depended upon for more everyday things. Thoug