<p><b>Winner of the <i>Guardian</i> Fiction Prize, <i>Trumpet</i> by Jackie Kay 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.</b><br><br><b>With an introduction by author Ali Smith.</b><br><br><i>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.</i><br><br>The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret.

Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. 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.<br><br><b>'Kay carefully registers the technical difficulties of transgendered life .

. . She leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love' &ndash; New York Times</b></p>


Format Häftad Omfång 320 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Pan Macmillan Utgivningsdatum 2016-02-25 ISBN 9781447289494