
Melissa
A Fiction book. Read my review of Melissa here: http://culturedvultures.com/book-revi...
Melissa is set in 1999-2000. At roughly 2pm on 9th June 1999, on a small street in Hanford, Stoke-on-Trent, a young girl dies of leukaemia; at almost the same moment, everyone on the street experiences the same musical hallucination. The novel is about this death and accompanying phenomenon – and...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9781784630355 / 0
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Every now and then, I sit at my keyboard to write a review and feel as if it's something I've never done before. To match a book that has swept me away and moved me deeply, I feel like I have to step things up a little, make my insights more meaningful, my language a little more carefully chosen, and I become incapable of writing anything... Read my review of Melissa here: http://culturedvultures.com/book-revi... It's not a spoiler to tell you that the Melissa of the title dies at the beginning of the book - everything that follows is a result of this tragic occurrence. As she does so, all her neighbours experience a musical hallucination - most find it beautiful if perplexing, only a few dislike it.The novel is apparently based on a true story,...