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Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

par Barney Norris

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'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral. That is the meaning of this quiet city, where the spire soars into the blue, where rivers and stories weave into one another, where lives intertwine.'One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide - a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower - all facing their own personal disasters. As one of those lives hangs in the balance, the stories of all five unwind, drawn together by connection and coincidence into a web of experiences that perfectly represents the joys and tragedies of small town life.… (plus d'informations)
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This novel focuses on the intersecting lives of five people, all of whom are present at a car accident one evening in Salisbury, Wiltshire. One character is the driver of the car; another is the badly injured victim; the other three are witnesses to the crash. Norris gives us the characters’ individual stories, each in his or her own first-person voice.

There are flaws in the novel: the voice of the youngest character, Sam, is perhaps too sophisticated for a fifteen-year-old, and the military wife’s section is repetitive and overly long. In general, the writing could have been trimmed and tightened up as well. However, there is a heart beating at the novel’s core, and a questioning sensibility informs the work: Why are we here and what is the meaning of our lives?

For me, it was the driver and the victim whose voices were strongest and most convincing. Norris’s is an emotionally resonant work, which I found absorbing and satisfying. ( )
  fountainoverflows | Dec 26, 2020 |
Not a novel. A series of interconnected (depressing) episodes that don't go anywhere. ( )
  MarthaJeanne | Jan 12, 2020 |
An interesting premise for the story but the links between the 5 characters are too contrived and while there are interesting sections, the overall tone is one of unrelenting gloom narrated through the narratives of the main characters. An uneven read and not enough light and shade in this outing from Barney Norris. ( )
  sianpr | Dec 22, 2017 |
Like a brioche burger - great fun in the middle, but rather soft either side. I found the scene-setting introduction rather odd, and the coda seems so short that one wonders if the publishers ran out of paper. Still, Norris is a talented ventriloquist, switching from genteel homes with Aga kitchens to drunken trysts in toilets with aplomb. One to watch, as all the reviewers have said. ( )
1 voter alexrichman | Aug 16, 2017 |
This is one of those occasions when I stand back in amazement at the skill and perceptiveness of an author so much younger than me. He inhabits five characters, diverse in age and background, and nails them all. I particularly liked the second part (Sam), where the subject of social awkwardness is treated with tremendous skill and sensitivity. Those of us who really are socially awkward always appreciate that sort of thing! Living close to the book's setting, I also enjoyed reading about real places I know, have visited and cycled through, like Fordingbridge and the tiny community of Martin.

If I could have a wish, it would be for the penultimate chapter to be a bit shorter and the final one a bit longer, but that really is nitpicking. What a stunning first novel. ( )
1 voter jayne_charles | Jun 14, 2017 |
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Long before the steep trickle of the Channel widened to make an island of England, before the first settlers arrived and started claiming the land around, laying down tree trunks to make pathways through marshes from ridgeway to mountain to hill, something unusual happened in the green south of Wiltshire.
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'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral. That is the meaning of this quiet city, where the spire soars into the blue, where rivers and stories weave into one another, where lives intertwine.'One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide - a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower - all facing their own personal disasters. As one of those lives hangs in the balance, the stories of all five unwind, drawn together by connection and coincidence into a web of experiences that perfectly represents the joys and tragedies of small town life.

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