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Trumpet

By: Jackie Kay
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
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When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The discovery is most devastating for their adopted son, Colman, whose bewildered fury brings the press to the doorstep and sends his grieving mother to the sanctuary of a remote Scottish village.

Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Trumpet by Jackie Kay is a starkly beautiful modern classic about the lengths to which people will go for love. It is a moving story of a shared life founded on an intricate lie, of loving deception and lasting devotion, and of the intimate workings of the human heart.

©1998 Jackie Kay (P)2012 W F Howes Ltd

Accolades & Awards

Lambda Literary Award
1999
Lambda Literary Award Literary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction

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I love this book, I love the story, and I love the voice performance. Very touching. Please listen.

Awesomely Written and Narrated

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this was amazing. timely. heart-wrenching and heart-warming. So well-narrated. so intense and well-written/read.
I loved the narrator, who brought it to life.

awesome

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The narrator was great, the different voices made it easy to distinguish between characters and sections. There is one section in particular where the text flows from the son speaking as a 30 something young man to his memories as a child and the narrator's change in voice provides as seamless and smooth a transition as the text.

Amazing characterization and performance to match

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A beautiful meditation on what it's like to change identities, and to be true to yourself; about grief and forgiveness; about the funny problems of conventional life, and unconventional life too. It rings true.

Amazing narration, by an actor so skilled at making not just different accents but different people come alive in the recording.

Beautiful and True

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Haunting. Beautiful. Grieving. Jackie Kay offers a master class and Cathleen McCarron embodies each character to perfection. A must read.

One of the best stories I have ever listened to

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