Gracenotes

What happens when you lose your music? How far would you go to get it back? When Grace's daughter Juliet brings home new boyfriend Leo, a brilliant concert violinist, she inadvertently triggers a buried chain reaction that will threaten an entire family. Twenty-five years earlier Grace gave up a promising musical vocation for a profitable career in banking. Now her daughter is hooked up with a genuine talent who has fought for the artistic life that Grace threw away. When Juliet takes her parents to hear Leo perform, Grace is overwhelmed by an aching grief for her lost future. Despair throws her into a maelstrom of erotic risk and unforgivable duplicity. Her high-powered financial career begins to unravel along with everything she holds dear. A passionate novella in five acts, GRACENOTES explores the compulsion to make music - and love - whatever the cost. As a writer and musician, Fiona Howe has long been fascinated by the interplay between words and music. Her professional background is in film and television. Having worked initially in production and script editing at the BBC and ITV, then as a screenplay writer for a number of European networks, she founded her own production company Scenario Films for whom she has produced, and composed the music for, an award-nominated trilogy of feature films, DESIRE, DELIGHT and DELIRIUM. A classical pianist and flautist with a BA in English Literature, she is also a singer-songwriter, having released her début album MERMAID'S WORK in 2016. Her first novel SHE DANCED was published in 2019.***** Amazon Reviews for SHE ‘Super-intelligent writing, breathtaking insights into the world of contemporary music and media…’‘Unnervingly relatable… a haunting and powerful read…’‘Vivid, acute and intelligent…’‘…wonderful story…just fantastic…’‘…moving, sensual and beautifully written… a riveting read from an exciting new writer.’