Vintage paperback edition of MacLaverty's highly acclaimed Booker-shortlisted novel, which delicately and skilfully explores a variety of themes as it follows a young woman in the throes of post-natal depression as she returns to a provincial Ulster town for her father's funeral. A novel of great distinction, from a master story-teller. A master of haunted realism. His best novel yet }The Observer Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father`s funeral. This is a novel, about coming to terms with the past and the healing power of music, GRACE NOTES is a master story-teller`s triumphant return to the long form: a powerful lyrical novel of great distinction.