

Grace Notes is a compact and altogether masterful portrait of a woman composer and the complex interplay between her life and her art. With superb artistry and startling intimacy, it brings us into the life of Catherine McKenna--estranged daughter, vexed lover, new mother,...

Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father s funeral. Catherine McKenna-a young composer-remembers exactly why she left: the claustrophobic intimacies of the Catholic enclave, her fastidious, nagging mother, and the pervading tensions of a city at war with...

In his first novel since Cal, MacLaverty presents a compact, luminous, and altogether masterful portrait of a woman composer and the complex interplay between her life and her art. A prosaic novel of great delicacy and tensile strength, Grace Notes is a book that the Virginia...
