Melissa
By: Jonathan Taylor
Publisher: Salt
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cromer, Norfolk
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781784630355
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Bereavement; Fiction; Hallucinations and illusions
Description: "Melissa is set in 1999-2000. At roughly 2 pm on 9th June 1999, on a small street in Hanford, Stoke-on-Trent, a young girl dies of leukaemia; at almost the same moment, everyone on the street experiences the same musical hallucination. The novel is about this death and accompanying phenomenon - and about their after-effects, as the girl's family gradually disintegrates over the following year."--Publisher's web site.