Raffaella Barker: 'I can't write in London everything gets in the way'

The Norfolk novelist on her literary family, her love of the natural world and why her eighth novel is set in Cornwall

Raffaella Barker is the author of seven novels including Come and Tell Me Some Lies, Hens Dancing and A Perfect Life. Her eighth is From a Distance, a novel about a family divided by war. She teaches creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Born and brought up in the Norfolk countryside, she is the daughter of the poet George Barker, first published by TS Eliot in the 1930s.

From a Distance is about family secrets. Was that intentional from the start?

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