style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Nicola Barker, Impac prize winner and Man Booker nominee, doesn’t write Hampstead novels; she writes Canvey Island, Ashford and Isle of Sheppey novels. Now her campaign of reverse rarefication has reached the unlovely town of Luton, north of London. The book is nominally (all things are nominal in a Barker novel) also about golf.