Chorus

Chorus is a novel that follows the lives of seven siblings growing up in a rural Virginia farmhouse after their mother's death. The story spans from the Great Depression to the 1959 counterculture, and explores the relationships between the siblings as they grow up and move away from home.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 06 July 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

You don't have to go back. You will stay here at home, with me. This is where you belong.

One afternoon, in a little farmhouse in rural Virginia, the ailing Marie Shaw dies in ambiguous circumstances, and nothing is ever the same again for the seven young children she left behind. Spanning from the Great Depression to the burgeoning of US counterculture in 1959, Chorus sensitively traces the divergent paths taken by the grieving Shaw siblings as they grow together and apart over the decades.

Henry, Jack, Maeve, Lane, Sam, Wendy, and Bette get married and divorced, go to war, and give birth to children of their own. They break down and pick themselves up again. Chorus is a hopeful story of family, loss, and recovery, of complicated relationships forged between brothers and sisters as they move through life together, and of the unlikely forces that first drive them away and then ultimately back home.

Weight: 218g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800810839
Edition number: Main