Echo's End: A Wiltshire Love Story

by Barney Norris

Wiltshire. 1915. As the shadow of war falls over the landscape, a young couple find themselves caught up in the turmoil of troubled times.

For generations, John and Anna’s families have made a living working the land. Growing up next door to each other in back-to-back cottages, everyone has always expected them to marry. Now, with half a million young soldiers pouring into the county, the world seems bigger than they ever imagined, and the future far from certain.

Echo’s End is a story about two Wiltshire families and the seismic changes which altered their lives and the identity of their county forever.

Echo’s End was commissioned by Salisbury Playhouse, and received its world premiere production there in 2017.

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 26, 2017

About the author

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.