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Dashboard Elvis is Dead
The epic, extraordinary new novel from one of Scotland's most exceptional novelists
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A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician s resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times. Renowned photo-journalist Jude Montgomery arrives in Glasgow in 2014, in the wake of the failed Scottish independence referendum, and it s clear that she s searching for someone. Is it Anna Mason, who will go on to lead the country as First Minister? Jamie Hewitt, guitarist from eighties one-hit wonders The Hyptones? Or is it Rabbit Jude s estranged foster sister, now a world-famous artist? Three apparently unconnected people, who share a devastating secret, whose lives were forever changed by one traumatic night in Phoenix, forty years earlier Taking us back to a school shooting in her Texas hometown, and a 1980s road trip across the American West to San Francisco and on to New York Jude s search ends in Glasgow, and a final, shocking event that only one person can fully explain
A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician s resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times.
Renowned photo-journalist Jude Montgomery arrives in Glasgow in 2014, in the wake of the failed Scottish independence referendum, and it s clear that she s searching for someone.
Is it Anna Mason, who will go on to lead the country as First Minister? Jamie Hewitt, guitarist from eighties one-hit wonders The Hyptones? Or is it Rabbit Jude s estranged foster sister, now a world-famous artist?
Three apparently unconnected people, who share a devastating secret, whose lives were forever changed by one traumatic night in Phoenix, forty years earlier
Taking us back to a school shooting in her Texas hometown, and a 1980s road trip across the American West to San Francisco and on to New York Jude s search ends in Glasgow, and a final, shocking event that only one person can fully explain