Say That You’ll See Me Again

Synopsis

Four teenagers. One unit. A friendship that won’t let go.

Four teenagers – Lucy, Mike, Joe, and the elusive Liv – first meet as inpatients in a psychiatric unit in Birmingham. When they leave, they scatter back to their separate lives in rural Herefordshire and beyond, carrying with them the fragile bonds formed in that strange, suspended time. Say That You’ll See Me Again follows what becomes of them, told through a polyphony of voices: Lucy’s journal letters to the absent Liv, Mike’s restless and darkly funny interior monologue, lyrical passages opening across generations. A novel about the aftermath of crisis, the longing for connection, and the friendships that mark us permanently – whether or not they survive.

Praise for Previous Work

‘(On Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain) Wonderful … I was hooked from the first page. Barney has the real novelist’s ability to inhabit different characters, and to make the texture of life tangible and compelling. Everything he writes about love, loss, grief, desolation, and moments of hope and illumination rings absolutely true. It’s the real stuff.’ —Michael Frayn

‘(On Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain) Barney Norris is a rare and precious talent.’ —Evening Standard

‘(On Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain) Shot through with compassion … this dreamlike, winding tale is a joy.’ —A. L. Kennedy

‘(On Turning for Home) One of our most exciting young writers.’ —The Times

‘(On Turning for Home) Life-affirming, beautiful and achingly poignant.

’ —Donal Ryan

‘(On The Vanishing Hours) Moving and unconventionally wise.’ —The Guardian