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“A detective story with a difference.” Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series.
“Besides being as catchy as a classic 1960s hit single, The Pieces is so persuasive that it’ll send you in search of records by the fictional 1960s singer-songwriter at its heart.” Paul Willetts, author of Members Only, filmed as The Look of Love.
“The Pieces is a brilliant novel, intriguing, page-turning—and often very funny—right from the start, I loved it!” Sarah LeFanu, author of Something of Themselves.
In 1968, English folk-singer Adam Earnshaw vanishes during a tour of the U.S. What happened to him? In The Pieces, a dazzling array of voices – university friends, lovers, fellow-musicians, a pirate radio DJ, an American record producer, an obsessive, self-destructive teenage girl – contribute their own fragments to the puzzle. In the end, there is an answer. But when it comes, it forces us to rethink everything we have just read.
James Wilson is known for his ability to inhabit different times and lives. In this, his seventh work of fiction, he brings his unique gift to bear – with the ambition and breadth of a Victorian novelist – on the late 1960s, with all their anxiety, hope, recklessness, excess, energy, and idealism. The result is a vivid, hugely entertaining, portrait of England at a pivotal moment in its recent history, when British and American artists and musicians were together forging a revolutionary popular culture that continues to shape our world today.
Superbly written and plotted, by turns funny and moving, and teeming with unforgettable characters, The Pieces carries readers back to that era – and shows them why it was so momentous – like no other novel before.
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