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Authors: Katharine Norbury

The Fish Ladder (34 page)

 

‘A secret well there was’, ‘Every way the woman went’:
Irish Metrical Dindshenchas
, translated by Edward John Gwynn, CELT, University College, Cork, 2004.

 

 

Afon Rhiw

 

‘What is existence’: R. S. Thomas, ‘Mass for Hard Times’ from
Selected Poems
, Penguin Modern Classics, 2003. Reproduced by kind permission of Gwydion Thomas on behalf of the R.S. Thomas Literary Estate.

 

‘That well is never dry’: Neil M. Gunn,
The Well at the World’s End
, Faber and Faber, London, 1951. Reproduced by kind permission of Dairmid Gunn on behalf of the Neil M. Gunn Literary Estate.

A Note on the Author

Katharine Norbury trained as a film editor with the BBC and has worked extensively in film and television drama. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA programme at UEA and a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths. She lives in London with her family.
The Fish Ladder
is her first book.

 

@kjnorbury

First published in Great Britain 2015

This electronic edition published in 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

 

Copyright © 2015 by Katharine Norbury

 

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Artwork © Katharine Norbury & Eva Rae Thomson

 

This book is a work of non-fiction based on the life, experiences and recollections of Katharine Norbury. In some cases names of people, places, dates, or the detail of events have been changed to protect the privacy of others. The author has stated to the publishers that, except in such minor respects not affecting the substantial accuracy of the work, the contents of this book are true

 

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