The Unconsoled Alan Campbell and the bonds of blood

and the bonds of blood and fate that connect them all

has learned secrets from Farmer Mint and his son

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driven by Dick Simnel

I've been to the bottom of the sea and the top of the sky and beyond trying to get to the truth

The Unconsoled Alan Campbell and the bonds of bloodBy the Nobel Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go. Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life.