“A debut novel and a good one too.
Based on a real life jazz trumpeter, this fictionalised story isn’t trying to recreate that story, far from it.
As a reader we know that Joss Moody is a coloured man who plays the trumpet in the 50’s Glasgow, he meets a girl and they go out together, the story changes when things begin to unravel…literally!
We learn about Joss’s life once he is dead, told by people in his life that are left behind.
I’m recommending this to people and feel reading groups would have plenty to discuss.
Score 7/10
Date read June 2012
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