Crescendo
by Joanna Howat
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Pub Date 11 Nov 2024 | Archive Date 30 Apr 2025
Joanna Howat | Flying Dog Press
Description
'This beautiful, intricately-woven novel of love, loss and redemption will echo in your heart long after you turn the last page. Brava to the new maestro of family fiction.' BESTSELLING AUTHOR CHRISSIE MANBY
Two siblings. One family tragedy. Who will pick up the pieces now?
New Year's Eve, 1991: three generations of the Fenton family gather in their grand North Yorkshire home for what they don't yet know will be their last meal together.
Jamie, a talented pianist stuck in a dead-end job, is desperate to escape his father's disapproval and his mother's smothering attention, while his sister Caz, basking in the love of her adoring husband and obsessed with motherhood, assumes their parents will always be there to catch them when they fall.
But when tragedy hits, the two siblings are thrown into a tailspin of grief from which one of them may never recover. As the family crumbles, Jamie and Caz realise adulthood doesn't come with a manual - and they're far less prepared for life than they thought.
Dark humour meets family dysfunction in this gripping, heartfelt debut novel about what happens when the grown-ups are gone and there's no-one to take their place.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781399989831 |
| PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 406 |
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Featured Reviews
Kelsey V, Reviewer
What a fantastic book! Joanna, you wrote a beautiful story. I love the main character and their honest heart. It was wonderful.
Kelly P, Reviewer
Give me a good book about families and I'll stay up late reading. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC of Crescendo by Joanna Howat. I did just that because this story has dysfunctional parents and siblings and drama! The pace of the story impressed me, and I found the writing to be excellent. It moved along well.
Stephanie C, Reviewer
The easiest 5 star read. ⭐️ Crescendo DELIVERED. I am such a huge ‘word’ person, and this was beautifully written.
There was so much realism in here, and it was amazing to follow as I felt like I was there. This book carried so much weight and emotion and I’m so glad I experienced this read. If I could read this again for the first time, I would.
Huge thank you to @netgalley and the publisher for a copy in exchange for an honest review. But also thank you to Joanna Howat for writing this.
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Catherine O, Reviewer
There's not much better than taking a chance on a debut novel and it turning out better than you'd hoped.
Crescendo tells the story of Jamie and Caz Fenton who find themselves in the middle of a family tragedy. Jamie is the archetypal youngest child - still at home and reliant on his parents, in a job that he's hopeless at and dreaming of being a concert pianist. Older sister Caz was the wild child. She's married to a man who adores her with 2 little girls who are the apple of their mother's eye.
But after the tragedy the two siblings find themselves thrown into lives that they struggle with. Will they rise to the occasion or will their losses be too much to bear?
I often begin reading several books at a time but Crescendo took over my attention. I raced through it, desperate to know what happened next. Of itself, the story has elements that we've probably all come across either in other books or our own lives but it is the sensitivity of the writing and the immensely believable characters who really drove this story.
Joanna Howat has written a wonderful debut novel and I shall look out for her name on novels in the future.
Thoroughly enjoyed it. Highly recommended.
Thankyou to Netgalley for the advance review copy. Most appreciated.
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