Phosphorescence (21 page)

‘Delightful … Expertly constructed … A true novelist with an engaging authorial voice and the imagination and skill to create a believable fictional world'
Evening Standard

If you have a device with internet capabilities please click
here
or visit
www.bloomsbury.com/raffaellabarker
for more information

A Perfect Life

‘To write well and with such open-hearted affection is an achievement'
Observer

‘Beautifully poignant, insightful and grown-up'
Mirror

The Stone family live a fairy-tale existence in their home in rural Norfolk, complete with adorable children, glamorous parents and postcard-perfect seaside picnics. Nick, Angel and their family lead a charmed life. And yet beneath the surface all is not as it seems.

Why is Nick away so often? Where is the laughter? And what is happening to the children?

We all want a perfect life, but at what price?

‘Evocatively written, provocatively pitched, it tells how time can pick away at the fabric of relationships'
Good Housekeeping

If you have a device with internet capabilities please click
here
or visit
www.bloomsbury.com/raffaellabarker
for more information

First published in Great Britain by Macmillan Children's Books 2004

This electronic edition published by Bloomsbury 2014

Copyright © 2004 Raffaella Barker

The moral right of the author has been asserted

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews

Bloomsbury Publishing plc
50 Bedford Square
London
WC1B 3DP

www.bloomsbury.com

Bloomsbury is a trademark of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bloomsbury Publishing, London, New Delhi, New York and Sydney

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 4088 5313 9

To find out more about our authors and their books please visit 
www.bloomsbury.com
 where you will find extracts, author interviews and details of forthcoming events, and to be the first to hear about latest releases and special offers, sign up for our newsletters 
here
.