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Barney Norris

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Barney Norris


Born
in Chichester, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1987

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Barney Norris is a playwright and novelist. His work has received awards from the International Theatre Institute, the Critics' Circle, the Evening Standard, the Society of Authors and the South Bank Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Awards, among others, and been translated into eight languages. His plays include Visitors, Nightfall and an acclaimed adaptation of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day; his novels include Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain. ...more

Average rating: 3.63 · 3,478 ratings · 475 reviews · 27 distinct worksSimilar authors
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded...

3.63 avg rating — 2,397 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions
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Turning for Home

3.78 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions
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The Vanishing Hours

3.44 avg rating — 306 ratings7 editions
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Undercurrent

3.53 avg rating — 281 ratings3 editions
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Visitors

3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions
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Eventide

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions
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Nightfall

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We Started to Sing

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While We're Here

2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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The Wellspring: Conversatio...

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“Now I am old I wish the young man I used to be had worried less about the past and lived more heedlessly in the present. I suppose I did as much living as I could. But I burn to tell men and women who are still young now how quickly it is going to get behind them, how fiercely they ought to love it while they can.”
Barney Norris, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

“Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.”
Barney Norris, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

“[Life] has been passing since the day he was born, and everything he puts off, chooses not to do or say because he is hoarding experience for his real, adult life isn't a thing safeguarded but a treasure risked. The world is full of things put off for the wrong reasons, which can suddenly become impossible without warning. They hang in the air like ghosts, their mouths and eyes sewn up forever. They will never be able to speak, but if it was you who put them there, you will always be forced to see them.”
Barney Norris, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

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