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An 80th birthday party causes no end of trouble in Barney Norris’s latest novel

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

‘People live in the space between the realities of their lives and the hopes they have for them,’ muses the octogenarian Robert at the start of Turning for Home, helpfully establishing the novel’s major theme. Little ventriloquised cogitations like this cover Barney Norris’s second novel like fingerprints, giving the game away.

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