Unusual and compelling

When the Music stops by Joe Heap is an unusual and compelling story about life, loss and music. It’s the story of Ella, a session musician, through the course of her life with alternating chapters of her as an 87 year old dementing woman stranded alone on a sinking boat with a baby. Haunting and lyrical, it is a truly comforting book and the image of life as a record is for me a helpful way of holding love and loss close and being in the wholeness of one’s life. Very readable and hard to put down.