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Clinkerstone

Michael Kearns

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A mystery and adventure novel with a strong musical element.
The search for a lost piano sonata gives a young musician a new purpose in life.
From an author with an intimate knowledge of the world of classical music.

1982. Sean Gallagher, a talented musician leaves the west coast of Ireland to work for this Uncle’s
construction firm in Chicago. All goes well until he is forced to leave after a run-in with a local protection
racket. His life spirals downwards until he is reduced to busking on the streets. Then his cherished violin is
stollen and he ends up in hospital having suffered an epileptic attack.

While here, Sean has a potent encounter with the terminally ill Charles Peccatte, a wayward if remarkably
insightful pianist and composer, who is desperately trying to complete the last movement of his piano sonata.
Sean helps Charles complete the sonata and a few days later he dies, leaving what little he owns to Sean.

In a quest to find the first two movements of the sonata, Sean sets out on a journey down the Mississippi and
into the state of Georgia. There he meets Marion Landray, Charles’s estranged wife, a reclusive yet inwardly
passionate woman.

Despite their often stormy relationship, together they continue to search out the whereabouts of the rest of the
music – rejuvenating Marion and eventually unlocking a momentous episode from Sean’s formative years.

Michael Kearns was born on the Canadian prairies. At age nineteen, he travelled to Europe and ended up in
Oxford. After having been introduced to classical music and an important violin collection he enrolled at the
Newark School of Violin Making and some years later set up Oxford Violins. Other interests include writing,
painting, filmmaking and classic car restoration.

Publication Date: 28th September 2024 £11.99 ISBN: 9781805144779
Thema subject category: FB – Fiction: general and literary
paperback 198 x 129 mm 264 pp Portrait Author location: Oxford

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