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Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

By: Barney Norris
Narrated by: Claire Skinner, Christopher Benjamin, Hasan Dixon, Joe Jameson, Linda Bassett, James Doherty
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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 love, grief, disenchantment and hope that perfectly represents the joys and tragedies of small-town life.

©2016 Barney Norris (P)2016 Random House Audiobooks Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Heartfelt
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Thoughtful, realism, and authentic voices. Beautifully, wonderfully narrated. The stories are loosely, but catastrophically entwined.

A reflection on relationships, perceptions of loss and loneliness, and an exploration of the pathways and choices given to us.

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