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Turning for Home

Turning for Home

by Barney Norris (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

    $15.74
Synopsis

The brilliant new novel from the author of the award-winning FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN. 'Courageous...memorable...moving' - Guardian 'One of our most exciting young writers' - The Times 'Life-affirming, beautiful and achingly poignant' - Donal Ryan 'Isn't the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? People live in the space between the realities of their lives and the hopes they have for them. The whole world makes more sense if you remember that everyone has two lives, their real lives and their dreams, both stories only a tape's breadth apart from each other, impossibly divided, indivisibly close.' Every year, Robert's family come together at a rambling old house to celebrate his birthday. Aunts, uncles, distant cousins - it has been a milestone in their lives for decades. But this year Robert doesn't want to be reminded of what has happened since they last met - and neither, for quite different reasons, does his granddaughter Kate. Neither of them is sure they can face the party. But for both Robert and Kate, it may become the most important gathering of all. As lyrical and true to life as Norris's critically acclaimed debut Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, which won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, this is a compelling, emotional story of family, human frailty, and the marks that love leaves on us.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 272
 Edition: 1st Edition
 Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 11 Jan 2018
ISBN 10: 0857523740
ISBN 13: 9780857523747
Book Overview: The new novel from the bestselling and critically acclaimed young author of Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

Media Reviews
Courageous...memorable...so moving that one wonders why as a society we are so much more eager to hear about young love than old... entirely convincing...it is incidental moments that remain vivid in memory once the book is closed, small glimpses of unsuspected inner lives. Such scenes carry with them Norris's plea that we take more notice of the people around us. * Guardian *
This novel firmly establishes Barney as one of the most insightful and attuned writers of his generation. He negotiates all the huge and hugely important themes - love, family, loss, conflict, pain, the storm-blown paths we all travel - with such grace and absolute empathy. It's a life-affirming, beautiful and achingly poignant book. -- Donal Ryan
Deeply moving...readers would do well to make the acquaintance of Barney Norris, who has the potential to become a hugely significant novelist in the decades ahead. -- John Boyne
Remember the name Barney Norris. He's a new writer in his mid-twenties, but already outstanding. * The Times *
Everything he writes about love, loss, grief, desolation and moments of hope and illumination rings absolutely true. It's the real stuff. -- Michael Frayn
Barney Norris is a rare and precious talent * Evening Standard *
Impressive * Financial Times *
Utterly convincing...profound and elegiac * Daily Mail *
Author Bio
Barney Norris was born in Sussex in 1987, and grew up in Salisbury. Upon leaving university he founded the theatre company Up In Arms. He won the Critics' Circle and Offwestend Awards for Most Promising Playwright for his debut full-length play Visitors. He is the Martin Esslin Playwright in Residence at Keble College, Oxford.