Kurzbeschreibung
A blackly comic, evocative and charming novel set in the 1960s about a young girl who sabotages a murder enquiry and the effect it has on the rest of her life. Intelligent and original.
Synopsis
It is the summer of 1965. Annie Cradock, the only child of exacting parents who run the village school, is an imaginative girl with a head full of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Annie whiles away the school holiday with her friends: Ollie the rag-and-bone man (and more importantly his dog); the beautiful piano-playing Mrs Clitheroe who turns Beethoven into boogie-woogie (and like Annie sees music in colour); and Annie's best friend Babette - streetwise, loyal, and Annie's one solid link with common sense. But everything changes when the village is rocked by a series of murders and the girls know something they've no intention of telling the police. In the present day, adult Annie is a successful singing coach in a stifling marriage. Her ambitious American husband, impatient with his quirky wife, is taking a job in New York - but is she staying with him? As Annie struggles with her future, she first has to come to terms with the bizarre events of 1965.
Über den Autor
Jane Yardley has a Ph.D from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and works on medical projects around the globe. She has synaesthesia, a condition that mixes the sense -- so that she has, for example, the gift of hearing music or seeing numbers in colour. She lives in London.
