{"product_id":"visitors-9781783191048","title":"Visitors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a farmhouse at the edge of Salisbury Plain, a family is falling apart. Stephen can’t afford to put his mother into care; Arthur can’t afford to stop working and look after his wife. When a young stranger with blue hair moves in to care for Edie as her mind unravels, the family are forced to ask: are we living the way we wanted?   Visitors is a haunting, beautiful look at the way our lives slip past us.  \u003cb\u003eCritics Circle Award 2014 for Most Promising Playwright.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest New Play Award at the Off West End Theatre Awards 2014.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright and the Writers Guild of Great Britain 2014 award for Best Play.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInfinitely touching...a mature and tender play. [Norris] is an authentic new voice. * Four stars - Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eBarney Norris's first full-length play is astonishingly accomplished. Norris is a perceptive and humane craftsman...he has created an aching love story. He is a talent to watch. * Five stars - Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e...an absolute beauty, by turns funny, tender and desperately sad. There is great richness and an almost poetic resonance in the writing so that we can almost see the play of light across their fields and apprehend the jolting dislocation of dementia. It is much harder to write interestingly about happiness than it is about misery, but Norris often does just that. * Four stars - Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eIt's a hefty subject - the way dementia destroys people's minds and families - but Norris's excellent play deals with it with surprising lightness of touch and humour. * Time Out London *\u003cbr\u003eA tender, elegiac, beautifully written and observed play * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eRemember the name Barney Norris. He’s outstanding. * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eBarney Norris’s astonishingly accomplished debut. * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eAn absolute beauty, by turns funny, tender and desperately sad. * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e‘Infinitely touching. The real pleasure lies in discovering  an authentic new voice.’ * Guardian *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863854973271,"sku":"9781783191048","price":16.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783191048.jpg?v=1759921239","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/visitors-9781783191048","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}