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Name: Trumpet

Full title: Trumpet: A Novel
Author: Jackie Kay
Year: 1998
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Popularity: 1.7
Genres/categories: Award winners, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Music
Culture: Scotland

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ISBN:
9780330331463
9780330391597
0330331469
0330391593
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award in 1998.

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.
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