The Vanishing Hours by Barney Norris - ISBN: 9781784163815
Paperback
Strangers, lost love, and a secret story will change everything.

The Vanishing Hours

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    20 October 2020

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Summary

From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN comes a powerful, moving, boldly original love story with a difference.

‘Shot through with compassion … this dreamlike, winding tale is a joy.’ A. L. KENNEDY

‘Moving and unconventionally wise.’ Guardian

This was how I heard the most important story of my life, the thing that decided me, the story that determined who I was in the end.

As snow begins to fall outside, two stra…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784163815
ISBN-10:1784163813
Author:Barney Norris
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Black Swan
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:20 October 2020
Weight:152g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 15mm
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Critics Review

The Vanishing Hours is a rare thing: a book shot through with compassion. Norris is more than a fine writer, he conveys a deep belief in humanity and its place in nature. This dreamlike, winding tale is a joy. * A. L. Kennedy *
Gripping, humane and funny. The Vanishing Hours is both a stunning work of art, and an extraordinarily important novel for our time. * Sophie Ratcliffe, author of The Lost Properties of Love *
A delicate tale of unexpected connection lights up another quiet masterpiece from Barney Norris * Waterstones Weekly *
A moving and unconventionally wise account of loss and memory and of how redemption works, even for those who resist it most. * Guardian *
Steeped in the powerful idea of personal rebirth through the imaginative engagement in the suffering of others. * Metro *

About The Author

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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