Barney Norris

Barney’s debut novel Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, a 2016 bestseller, painted a striking literary portrait of Salisbury and the intertwined lives of five people living there. Barney returns to this year’s Festival between productions of his plays Echo’s End and While We’re Here at the Salisbury Playhouse. In conversation with John Cox, he’ll introduce us to Turning For Home, his novel-in-progress, another emotional story of family, human frailty, and the marks love leaves on us.