This is 1989 novel by Fay Weldon, the British novelist most famous for The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil, a novel I read for a class in grad school (great class about body issues in literature) and a movie I saw weirdly as a kid a number of times starring Roseanne Barr and Ed Begley Jr and Meryl Streep. But this book is about a woman who is on the cusp of leaving her loveless marriage and is following a jazz trumpetist into the […]
No escape for any of us, of course.
Leader of the Band by Fay Weldon