The luminous novel by one of the finest living Irish writers, which Brian Moore has praised as "in every sense a triumph . . . moving throughout and ending triumphantly and joyously in its own special music." The award-winning
Grace Notes is a compact and altogether masterful portrait of a woman composer and the complex interplay between her life and her art. With superb artistry and startling intimacy, it brings us into the life of Catherine McKenna — estranged daughter, vexed lover, new mother, and musician making her mark in a male-dominated field. It is a book that the Virginia Woolf of
A Room of One's Own would instantly understand.
"MacLaverty summons up a time and a place with an unerring exactness reminiscent of Joyce's
Dubliners . . . a magnificent portrait of the sources and ends, wretchedness and rewards, of creativity."—
Sunday Times [London]
"Page after page something delighted and moved me-marvelous, vivid tours of emotion, intelligence, poetry-every step of the way. Compelling."—Dennis McFarland, author of
The Music Room "I was reminded of the way Joyce Cary so brilliantly portrayed a painter's life in
The Horse's Mouth. . . . What a wonderful writer [MacLaverty] is!"—Andrea Barrett
"More ambitious than any of his previous work . . . a remarkable novel."—Anna Mundow,
Boston Globe - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize
- Winner of the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award
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