Melody Girls - Hardcover
The new novel from the well-loved Scottish storyteller - When attractive redhead Lorna Fernie is taken on to play saxophone in a postwar Glasgow dance band, she is at first over the moon – especially when she and likeable trumpet player, Rod Warren, fall in love. But then disaster strikes. Rod leaves her, she loses her job, and it is only when she forms her own band – the Melody Girls – that the future gradually brightens. Fate, however, still holds a surprise for her: one that she will need all her courage to face . . .
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Best-selling author Anne Douglas has now made her home in Edinburgh, a city she has known for many years. She very much enjoys life in the modern capital, and finds its ever-present history fascinating.
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At the close of WWII, Lorna Fernie, a clerk in the local post office, enters a talent competition with her tenor saxophone. She's a runner-up and only wins five pounds, but Luke Riddell, the bandleader of a Glasgow orchestra, is in town and likes what he hears. He offers her a job with his orchestra, playing halls for crowds of people looking to dance. She's only one of three women in the entire orchestra and making a lot less than the men, and after Lorna talks with the other women in the orchestra, decides she wants to start an all-female band. Lorna manages to scrape together the capital, the rehearsal space, and enough girls to form her orchestra, the Melody Girls, and soon they're very popular. But Lorna still feels as though there's something missing and has to search her heart to find it. Douglas' latest novel is an uplifting story of love, music, and the strength of women. --Booklist, 1st November 2010
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- PublisherSevern House
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0727869361
- ISBN 13 9780727869364
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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