Why a Booktrail?
2022: Love is messy. Love can make us feel alive. It can also bring us down.
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
What you need to know before your trail
Love is messy. Love can make us feel alive. It can also bring us down. Sometimes we look for it in all the wrong places. This is a novel about longing, desire and dreams; about passion and risk and all the places in between.
Maggie is pregnant with Circus Palmer’s child. This may be her last chance, but she craves her freedom.
Pia is Circus’s ex-wife, still in love with the fantasy of the man who conjured jazz tunes for her into the night, but who left many years before.
Koko, Circus’s daughter, is lost in the maelstrom of teenage years, the confusion of awakening desire and yearning for the father she barely knows.
Peach is a barmaid who just wants someone to see the person she is inside.
Odessa is on the run from a mistake that can’t be undone.
And then there’s Circus, Circus Palmer, a jazz trumpeter whose moment of glory is fading. Selfish, damaged, scared, perhaps the only person Circus is fooling is himself.
Locations
Reset- America/USA - MA - Boston
- A: Hemenway St
- B: East Village - St Botolph St
- C: Boston Marathon Survivor Memorial
- America/USA - Florida
- D: Sanibel Island
Travel Guide
Boston jazz scene
There are few locations in the novel and to be honest, they’re not important to the story. The characters and the jazz scene is where the action is at, and it’s the way that a musician with a ‘woman in every town’ might be viewed. The jazz scene is busy and bustling but it’s the stories of love and angst that are the real sound track to this novel.
BookTrail Boarding Pass:
Destination/location: Boston Author/guide: Laura Warrell Departure Time: 2022
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