Wide OpenWinner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2000, Wide Open is the first of Nicola Barkers Thames Gateway novels. Poking out of the River Thames estuary, the strange Isle of Sheppey is home to a nudist beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is bleak, but the people are interesting. There's Luke, who specialises in join the dots pornography and lippy, outraged Lily. They are joined by Jim, the 8 year old Nathan and the