The Three Button Trick and Other Stories

First edition thus. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 216. Red paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine with publisher's device blind-stamped to front cover. Jacket design by John D. Sparks bearing a photo by David Turnley (priced $23.00 to front flap). Precedes the U.K. edition, published in 2003.

Signed by Author to title page.

A volume of nineteen droll stories selected by Barker from her two previous collections, Love Your Enemies (1993) and Heading Inland (1996).

"There are writers who exist to confirm people's feelings about themselves and to make them feel comforted or not alone. That's the opposite to what I do. I'm presenting people with unacceptable or hostile characters, and my desire is to make them understood." [Excerpt from an April 2007 interview in The Observer].

Selected in 2003 as one of its Best Twenty of Young British Novelists, by Granta Magazine. "[A] wildly imaginative and thoroughly entertaining collection." –Publishers Weekly