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Music in the Dark, Paperback / softback Book

Music in the Dark Paperback / softback

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'Wonderful and moving' Clare Chambers'Utterly absorbing' Sunday PostSHORTLISTED FOR THE WINSTON GRAHAM HISTORICAL PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZEJamesina Ross is long finished with men.

But one night a stranger seeking lodgings knocks on the door of her tenement flat.

He doesn't recognise her, but she remembers him at once.

Not that she plans to mention it. She has no intention of trusting anyone enough to let herself be vulnerable again. A lifetime ago, growing up in a Highland glen, Jamesina Ross wrote songs about the land and the kin who had worked it for generations.

But her music was no match for the violence her community faced in the Highland Clearances.

Jamesina has borne the disfigurements of that day ever since, on her face and inside her head.

Her lodger thinks that if she would only dare to open the past, she might have the chance of a future. This is a story about resilience, memory, resurrection - and those parts of who we are that nobody can take away.

A beautiful exploration of unlooked-for love in later life, its contrariness and its awkward, surprising joys, this is a story about resilience, memory, resurrection - and those parts of who we are that nobody can take away.

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