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‘By turns discursive, celebratory and reflective … a beautifully written paean to music, examining the role that it plays in our lives and what it has meant to Faber himself. He is no snob, but no indulgent populist, either. Instead, he has written the best book of its type since Alex Ross’s The Rest Is Noise’ - Observer‘A series of finely tuned observations formed from personal memories, nuggets of neuroscience and interviews with musical luminaries’ - Guardian‘Fresh … Unlike any music book I have read. Often very funny as well as piercingly acute’ - Scotsman‘Michel Faber wrote this book just for you’ - ROBERT FRIPP‘Praise for Michel Faber: Faber’s writing is so dizzyingly accomplished’ - KATHRYN HUGHES” -

Michel Faber is the award-winning author of seven novels, three short-story collections and a poetry book. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White and The Book of Strange New Things, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.