Undercurrent
The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful novel about finding yourself, from the Times bestselling author of Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
$22.99
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
21 November 2023
Summary
Written in the key of Anna Hope’s Expectation, this is an affecting novel about the difficult route to happiness, by the award-winning author of Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain.
‘Lyrical’ - Daily Mail ‘Beautiful’ - Spectator ‘Skilled’ - Financial Times ‘Vulnerable’ - Guardian ‘Deft’ - Independent ‘Profound’ - Observer
“The beginning of summer. Perhaps it crosses my mind even now while I wait for news of Amy that something is coming towards us. Like sighting…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804991848 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804991848 |
| Author: | Barney Norris |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 21 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 195g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Norris hits this universal note squarely and successfully. Undercurrent is a defiantly unfashionable, heartfelt, emotionally vulnerable novel about mothers and sons, letting go of the past and saying what you need to say to your loved ones before it’s too late. * Guardian *
A profound meditation on dealing with loss and finding your moorings in destabilising times * Observer *
Always skilled at creating character and voice… Norris demonstrates how seemingly insignificant moments impact a life. * Financial Times *
Beautiful and useful. His writing untangles the knots that tie us down, to families, to history. He writes to free us and deserves our thanks. * Spectator *
Lyrical, yearning, elegiac * Daily Mail *
Norris is a terrific writer. His characters not only convince, they’re invested with a depth of personality that fixes them in the reader’s mind long after the book has been replaced on the shelf… Undoubtedly one of the finest novels to come out of these islands this or any year. * New European *
Norris’s latest novel is a lyrical and affecting examination of love, life and the stories that shape us * Big Issue *
A deft novel about a struggling thirtysomething man’s chance meeting with a girl he once saved from drowning and the changes the event sets in motion. * Independent *
A beautiful novel, introspective and thoughtful. Undercurrent washes with a quiet intensity. * Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground *
Undercurrent is a profound and absorbing story of flux, failures and joys that charts the beautiful, ineffable welter of life itself. * Alison MacLeod, author of Tenderness *
Barney Norris
Barney Norris has been the recipient of the International Theatre Institute’s Award for Excellence, the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, a South Bank Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Award, an Evening Standard Progress 1000 Award, a Betty Trask Award and the Northern Ireland One Book Award. His work has been translated into eight languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, teaches Creative Writing at the University of Oxford where he is the Martin Esslin Playwright in Residence at Keble College, Oxford, and regularly reviews fiction for the Guardian.
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