A warm tender and funny story about unlikely friendships second chances and the magic of
soul music - perfect for fans of Nick Hornby David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe Dinah has always
lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless son her one release comes
at her town's Northern Soul nights where she gets to put on her best and lose herself in the
classics. Dinah has an especial hero: Bucky Bronco who recorded a string of soul gems in the
late Sixties and then vanished off the face of the earth. When she manages to contact Bucky she
can't believe her luck. Over in Chicago Bucky Bronco is down on his luck - and has been since
the loss of his beloved wife Maybelle. The best he can hope for is to make ends meet and try
and stay high. But then an unexpected invitation arrives from someone he's never met to
come to somewhere he's never heard of. With nothing to lose - and in need of the cash - Bucky
boards a plane. And so Bucky finds himself in rainy Scarborough where everyone seems to know
who is - preparing to play for an audience for the first time in nearly half a century. Over
the course of the week he finds himself striking up new and unexpected friendships and facing
his past and its losses for the very first time. Wise hilarious and profound Rare Singles
is an unforgettable story about the power of music and friendship to bring us back to
ourselves.
