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Ben Rice

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in Tiverton, Devon, The United Kingdom

January 01, 1972

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Ben Rice (born 1972), is a prize-winning British author.

Rice was born in Tiverton, Devon, educated at Blundell's School and read English literature at Newcastle University and then Wadham College, Oxford, before studying Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

His novel Pobby and Dingan (later filmed as 'Opal Dream') was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award in 2001 (as well as being shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), and in 2003 Granta named him as one of their twenty "Best of Young British Novelists". Pobby and Dingan is a short story about a small girl, her two imaginary friends, and her older brother who gradually learns that just because one can't see something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Disguised as a children ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 2,196 ratings · 287 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pobby and Dingan 3.87 avg rating — 2,155 ratings — published 2000 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“And at other times when Kellyanne held out Pobby and Dingan were real I would just sit there saying, "Are not. Are not. Are not," until she got bored of saying, "Are. Are. Are," and went running out screaming with her hands over her ears.

And many times I've wanted to kill Pobby and Dingan, I don't mind saying it.”
― Ben Rice, Pobby and Dingan

tags: ben-rice, brother, imaginary-friend, pobby-and-dingan, siblings, sisters

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“I still say Kellyanne could do with some real-live mates," went on my dad, as if he was talking to someone inside his beer.

Mum had stomped off into the kitchen. "Maybe they are real!" she shouted back at him after rattling a few plates together. "Ever thought about that, ye of little bloody imagination?”
― Ben Rice, Pobby and Dingan

tags: ben-rice, dingan, imaginary-friends, imagination, pobby, pobby-and-dingan

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“Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.”
― Ben Rice, Pobby and Dingan

tags: dead, death, imaginary-friends, imagination, pobby-and-dingan

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