Patrick Langley

"An eerie ability is passed from grandmother to grandson -- who now must reckon with a new cacophony of voices and sounds, all from the past, overlaying his life in the present -- in this stirring new novel from one of the UK's most exciting young writers. Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. She was educated at Agnes's Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which for centuries has offered...