Melissa

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ISBN: 9781784630355

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	TAYLOR, J
Pub Date	15/09/2015
Binding	Paperback
Pages	272

Publisher: Salt Publishing

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At 2 p.m. on 9th June 1999, on a small street in Hanford, Stoke-on-Trent, a young girl dies of leukaemia; at that moment, everyone on the street experiences the same musical hallucination. Jonathan Taylor's new novel explores the phenomenon and after-effects, as the girl's family gradually disintegrates over the course of a year.

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Shortlisted for the 2016 East Midland Book Awards Melissa is set in 1999-2000. At roughly 2pm on 9th June 1999, on a small street in Hanford, Stoke-on-Trent, a young girl dies of leukaemia; at almost the same moment, everyone on the street experiences the same musical hallucination. The novel is about this death and accompanying phenomenon - and about their after-effects, as the girl's family gradually disintegrates over the following year.