When a last collection of songs by British musical icon, James Bennett, is discovered in an old Somerset house, rumours about his mysterious death during a wild midsummer party more than fifty years ago begin to swirl again.
Post-World War II Nashville is a city of veterans returning from war, a growing homeless population still reeling in the aftermath of the Depression, an emerging African-American community, and women fighting to keep the jobs they filled when the war raged in Europe.
**Selected as a Book of the Summer 2025 by the Guardian, Financial Times, Economist and the BBC**The new novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian).
