School of Velocity

A "hugely impressive first novel" (David Nicholls) about a virtuoso pianist plagued by unwanted music in his head - with echoes of Gatsby and Patricia Highsmith

Jan - a virtuoso pianist - is about to go on stage to perform, but starts to remember his intense high school friendship with magnetic, eccentric Dirk. It was a friendship with an undertone of intimacy and danger. They reunite, and Jan is forced to question everything.