Twelve Bar Blues (novel)

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Twelve Bar Blues
Author Patrick Neate
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Historical novel
Publisher Penguin Books
Publication date 2001
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 401 pp (paperback edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-140-28656-X


Twelve Bar Blues is a 2001 novel by Patrick Neate, and the winner of that year's Whitbread novel award.

The story is essentially about two people who share a common history - Fortis 'Lick' Holden, a cornet player in early 20th Century New Orleans, and Sylvia Di Napoli, a retired prostitute living in modern day London, who is searching for her ancestry.