Whats your favourite book?

Question

Whats your favourite book?
if you could only choose one. please include the authors name.

Answer

Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate. I was completely absorbed into this book, It is so well written. Its interesting, sexy, mysterious....an absolute stonker of a read. I wasnt expecting it to be that good either, I only read it cos Id finished my book on holiday and I pinched it off my Dad he had just bought it for the trip....hes still never read it cos its safely stashed on my bookshelf!!!brbrSynopsisbrbrSpanning three continents and two centuries, Twelve Bar Blues is an epic tale of fate, family, friendship and jazz. At its heart is Lick Holden, a young jazz musician, who sets New Orleans on fire with his cornet at the beginning of the last century. But Licks passion is to find his lost stepsister and thats a journey that leads him to a place he can call home. Meanwhile, at the other end of the century, we find Sylvia, an English prostitute, and Jim, a young drifter. Theyre in search of Sylvias past, lost somewhere in the mists of the Louisiana bayou.brbrPatrick Neate has written a story that straddles time and space, love and friendship, roots and pilgrimage and everything between. Poignant and hilarious, it will hook you like a favourite tune till the end.