The Big Music
Kirsty Gunn

The hills only come back the same: I don’t mind . . .’ begins Kirsty Gunn’s The Big Music, a novel that takes us to a new understanding of how fiction can affect us. Presented as a collection of found papers, appendices and notes, The Big Music tells the story of John Sutherland of ‘The Grey House’, who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it.