Critically acclaimed author Jim Crace returns with a masterful and
tender new novel that explores the improvisational power of jazz and the
complexities of love and violence.
Leonard Lessing is a British jazz musician whose life has become largely
predictable and stagnant. While watching the news one night he
recognizes a man who is holding four hostages. The man is Maxie, a
former acquaintance who he met eighteen years previously in Austin,
Texas. When he meets up with Maxie's daughter Lucy, Lennie must decide
whether to sit silently, as he has so many times, or find the courage to
go to the crime scene and potentially save lives. A moving and
insightful novel, All That Follows proves once again that Jim Crace is
one of our most talented and dynamic storytellers.
