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WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS. A Novel by Joe Heap. With Music by John Sands. Joe Heap
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
1. The Child
1936
2. The Maiden
1948
3. The Lover
1954
4. The Rebel
1966
5. The Matron
1976
6. The Mother
1981
7. The Crone
1992
Coda
Acknowledgements
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About the Author
Also by Joe Heap
About the Publisher
To my grandparents, John and Jean, without whose stories this story could not have been written.
Musicologists disagree about how many of these voices, called modes, there are. Some say five, or nine, or twelve. For this book, we will cover the seven commonly accepted modes used in antiquity. The number seven was important to the ancients – seven Olympian gods, seven days of the week, seven ages of man. Seven is a mystical number, a magical number, and perhaps this little book yearns to do something magical.
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‘My room? Why?’
‘Because the fire’s not lit in there and the bed’s made.’
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