Nora Webster

'Rare and tremendous. It does everything we ought to ask of a great novel: that it respond to the fullness of our lives, be as large as life itself' Tessa Hadley, Guardian. Nora Webster is recently widowed. Unmoored by her sudden loss and the needs of her children whom she now must raise alone, she faces a future that was never meant to be. But within Nora is a strength - a quiet resolve not to succumb to others' expectations and, through the discovery of music and the gift of friendship, she may just find a way to live again. 'Beautiful and heartbreaking. So richly detailed. you feel like you are living in Nora's world' Independent. 'Read it if you relish fiction which is exquisitely written' The Times. 'Quietly but overwhelmingly affecting' Spectator. 'Brims with vitality, brought alive with outstanding vividness, enthralling' Sunday Times. 'If you loved Brooklyn. then you'll love this. as elegant and delicately wrought as gossamer' Metro.