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Pentatonic (Penguin Specials)
A Story of Music
Jonathan Coe - Author
£2.99

Audiobook: Digital Audiobook | 33 minutes | ISBN 9780241966396 | 28 Nov 2012 | Viking Adult
Pentatonic (Penguin Specials)


A daring and original audio story about family and memory, inspired by music from Danny Manners and written and read by Jonathan Coe.

When a family celebrates the prize-giving day at their daughter's secondary school, thoughts turn to their own childhoods. The father remembers his living room piano recital, recorded on a well-worn cassette tape. The mother remembers her own father's war tragedy. As the father searches for the physical reminder of his past and the mother longs to forget her own, they confront the breakdown of their marriage in the present.

In Pentatonic, Jonathan Coe movingly explores the memories that unite us and the experiences that drive us apart.

This story is also available as a Penguin ebook.