![]() What a wonderful writer is!"—Andrea Barrett "More ambitious than any of his previous work. Compelling."—Dennis McFarland, author of The Music Room "I was reminded of the way Joyce Cary so brilliantly portrayed a painter's life in The Horse's Mouth. Catherine McKenna-a young composer-remembers exactly why she left: the claustrophobic intimacies of the Catholic enclave, her fastidious, nagging mother, and the pervading tensions of a city at war with itself. a magnificent portrait of the sources and ends, wretchedness and rewards, of creativity."—Sunday Times "Page after page something delighted and moved me-marvelous, vivid tours of emotion, intelligence, poetry-every step of the way. Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her fathers funeral. "MacLaverty summons up a time and a place with an unerring exactness reminiscent of Joyce's Dubliners. It is a book that the Virginia Woolf of A Room of One's Own would instantly understand. ![]() ![]() With superb artistry and startling intimacy, it brings us into the life of Catherine McKenna — estranged daughter, vexed lover, new mother, and musician making her mark in a male-dominated field. The award-winning Grace Notes is a compact and altogether masterful portrait of a woman composer and the complex interplay between her life and her art. ![]()
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