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Barry Walsh

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in London, The United Kingdom

December 23

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I was born and grew up in central London, and went to school in the East End.

After dropping out of university, I worked at the Mermaid Theatre where a very tolerant Lord Miles allowed me to work in publicity. Later, I left to live in Greece where I’d planned, among other things, to write a novel. I didn't. I subsequently spent a career in corporate communications.

I came late to writing and my first novel, The Pimlico Kid – a story of first love – was published in July 2013 by HarperCollins. My second novel, Danny Boy, publishes on 5 January 2023.

When not writing, I enjoy the theatre, reading, watching Arsenal, being in France, listening to classical music and Neil Young, as well as occasionally looking at Audrey Hepburn’s face.

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	The Pimlico Kid 4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2013 — 2 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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I recently finished rereading The Grapes of Wrath, and its impact has been even greater in these times (big corporations, billionaires etc). To hear again Steinbeck’s voice for the little people has been wonderful and moving. In one of my old notebooks from when I first read it, I jotted down the following Ma Joad quotation. “If you’re in trouble or hurt or need, go to poor people. They’re the onl

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“Childhood love can endure but childhood promises are hard to keep.”
― Barry Walsh, The Pimlico Kid

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“It can be a sin to tell an untimely truth.”
― Church of Scotland

tags: danny-boy

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“Childhood love can endure but childhood promises are hard to keep.”
― Barry Walsh, The Pimlico Kid

tags: first-love

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“The truth is not something to be trotted out on just any old occasion.”
― Barry Walsh

tags: the-pimlico-kid

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“Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?”
― Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry

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“If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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