Grace Notes: A Novel

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize. . The luminous novel by one of the finest living Irish writers, which Brian Moore has praised as "in every sense a triumph ... moving throughout and ending triumphantly and joyously in its own special music."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, and musician making her mark in a male-dominated world. It is a book that the Virginia Woolf of A Room of One's Own would instantly understand.