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From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a novel about what it takes to make it in music. How charisma is worth its weight in gold. And how jealously can grow until it has eaten away at a musician’s heart.



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‘Shriver is a lively storyteller, and she keeps readers guessing to the end. . . . Checker and the Derailleurs, like its beguiling protagonist, is hard to forget’ People Magazine

‘Checker triumphant is the key, a boy so radiant that his creator (she wrote The Female of the Species) has fallen in love with him. And so has the reader’ Publisher’s Weekly

‘Funny, clever, and touching’ Library Journal

Checker and the Derailleurs

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    A Paperback by Lionel Shriver

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      Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
      Published 2 December 2015
      ISBN-13 9780007564033
      978-0007564033
      ISBN-10 0007564031

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a novel about what it takes to make it in music. How charisma is worth its weight in gold. And how jealously can grow until it has eaten away at a musician’s heart.



      Trade Review

      ‘Shriver is a lively storyteller, and she keeps readers guessing to the end. . . . Checker and the Derailleurs, like its beguiling protagonist, is hard to forget’ People Magazine

      ‘Checker triumphant is the key, a boy so radiant that his creator (she wrote The Female of the Species) has fallen in love with him. And so has the reader’ Publisher’s Weekly

      ‘Funny, clever, and touching’ Library Journal

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