Inconvenient for Years

Twelve years of session work in London left Chris Metcalfe broke, blocked, and famous for nothing. He comes home to Hollinbeck to bury the man who first put a cornet in his hands, and finds a colliery band with no colliery, a condemned Institute, six weeks until the Regionals, and a funeral director whose deadpan patience is the only kindness he can stand. Then a documentary producer offers eighteen thousand pounds and a contract he doesn't read.