When the love of your life dies the problem is not that some part of you dies too which it
does but that some part of you is still alive. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss
Moody exposes an extraordinary secret unknown to all but his wife Millie. The discovery is most
devastating for their adopted son Colman whose bewildered fury brings the press to the
doorstep and sends his grieving mother to the sanctuary of a remote Scottish village. Winner of
the Guardian Fiction Prize Trumpet is a starkly beautiful modern classic about the lengths to
which people will go for love. It is a moving story of a shared life founded on an intricate
lie of loving deception and lasting devotion and of the intimate workings of the human heart.
'The voices in this tender compassionate work were still singing in my head a couple of weeks
after I'd finished it' Observer 'Jackie Kay makes the unbelievable gloriously real. Trumpet is
a love story and a lament beautifully told' Time Out
