I loved it. I will listen to it again and I highly recommend it. If you're someone who enjoys audio books, I suggest that route.

Here's a link to a more complete review but it says pretty much the same thing.

http://reviews.c-spot.net/archives/4739 ( )

Promising plot waylaid by too much introspection excusing all the years of lies.

For no good reason, trumpeterJoss Moody and Millie drop their major betrayal on their adopted son, Colman.
Readers may well wish he just took the richly well deserved money for the book and relaxed into a new life.
Sophie Stone's exploitation of his grief translates into a release from his desire for revenge.

The many perspectives of Moody's death are pretty depressing, with Big Red the outstanding character.

While we wonder why Joss never retuned to fully care for his aging Mother,
we may still hope that Colman goes back to help her instead of placating his Mother .

Readers will want to hear that storybook TRUMPET play!!!

Descriptions of house and dark and land and sea and moon and wind in Torr are compelling. ( )

4.6 - excellent, also features Greenock which is a rare treat for a novel ( )

A trans jazz trumpeter is outed after his death; this novel follows his widow and his adopted son as they come to terms with both events, and introduces various incidental characters (the undertaker, the registrar, the cleaner...) in one-off scenes. This was beautiful and harrowing, a portrait of grief made more difficult than it needed to be because of the prurient rubbernecking of strangers. (And in these days of increasing transphobia from the press, it was satisfying to see the journalist/ghostwriter presented as a thoroughly nasty piece of work.)

"Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken."

This was raw and complex, in a way that was mostly good. Normally I would balk at a book whose main character is purely seen from other people's perspectives and only known through their narrations, but it would've been weird if that wasn't the way Kay went about in this book. Because it is a story about exactly that... and Kay does it well. ( )