A review by devilstatedan
The Melody by Jim Crace

3.0

This story centres around an ageing singer/performer who was once a celebrated entertainer commanding full houses of society's elite. Nowadays he shuffles around suffering from the recent death of his loving wife, but then thing take a sinister turn when he's attacked in his own home by a creature of an unknown origin. His world is challenged as he negotiated his way around the incident and who he once was, who he is now, and what his future holds. Supremely well written with great use of language.