The Tenor Man's Story

Alex Ingram is well-acquainted with sorrow. He's overcome childhood polio to become a successful singer whose lyric voice 'lays bare the joy and pain of being alive.' When tragedy strikes again, Alex finds hope through the healing power of music.
And an epiphany awaits... an unforeseen encounter that changes everything.
Standing alone but reconnecting with characters from Carole Strachan's acclaimed debut, The Truth in Masquerade, The Tenor Man's Story returns to the world of classical music. With a vivid and compelling story of love and loss, reminding us that life can be wonderful, often in the most unexpected of ways.

Carole Strachan grew up in Merthyr Tydfil and studied History at Oxford. In a working life in theatre and music that took her from the Potteries to Manchester, from Cardiff to Llandeilo and back to Oxford, in 2001, she returned to live permanently in South Wales. The Tenor Man is her third novel for Cinnamon Press and like The Truth in Masquerade (2016) and A Song of Thyme and Willow (2019), its characters inhabit the world of classical music, reflecting the twenty-three years Carole spent working in opera.