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New Year's Eve, 1991. December 31st, 1991. At a large house in rural North Yorkshire, three generations of Fentons are gathering, unaware that this will be their last family lunch together. Jamie, a talented pianist stuck in a dead-end job, is determined to escape his father's disapproval and his mother's smothering attention. His sister Caz, basking in the love of an adoring husband and desperate to be a good mother to her two young daughters, takes her parents' unconditional support for granted. When tragedy strikes, both Jamie and Caz are thrown into a tailspin of grief from which one of the may never recover. An unflinching study of family relationships with a rich vein of humour, Crescendo is a novel about what happens when the adults have left the room and no-one has a clue what to do... An unflinching study of family relationships with a rich vein of humour, Crescendo is a novel about what happens when the adults have left the room and no-one has a clue what to do...

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This beautiful, intricately-woven novel of love, loss and redemption will echo in your heart long after you turn the last page. Bravo to the new maestro of Family Fiction.' CJ Wray, author of The Excitements, Orion 2024.

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Joanna Howat trained as a journalist and worked as a producer for BBC Radio 5 Live. She lives in the North Yorkshire Dales with her husband, two children and two spaniels and is a keen classical pianist.

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