Full name: Trumpet: A Novel

Author: Jackie Kay Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Music Culture: Scotland Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780375704635 0375704639

In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving deception and lasting devotion. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, one that enrages his adopted son, Colman, leading him to collude with a tabloid journalist. Besieged by the press, his widow Millie flees to a remote Scottish village, where she seeks solace in memories of their marriage. The reminiscences of those who knew Joss Moody render a moving portrait of a shared life founded on an intricate lie, one that preserved a rare, unconditional love. Similar books: The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball The Half-life of Happiness by John Casey Wolf In White Van by John Darnielle The Subject Steve by Sam Lipsyte Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan An Inconvenient Woman by Dominick Dunne The Wilder Sisters by Jo-Ann Mapson Walking on Water by Richard Paul Evans The Path of Minor Planets by Andrew Sean Greer Marazan by Nevil Shute Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw A Seahorse Year by Stacey D'Erasmo Bel Canto by Ann Patchett