MarcoGraham
From the author of Blue Moves from the Frozen Embrace comes a tender, surreal, and emotionally charged novel about love, memory, and the quiet miracles we attempt when time feels like it's running out.
Our Song (The Musical Interlude of a Last Chance Romantic) follows Reggie, an aging husband haunted by regret, grief, and a mind that no longer plays by the rules of reality. On the eve of his thirtieth wedding anniversary, Reggie sets himself one impossible task: to learn his wife Valerie's favourite song-"Your Song"-on the piano, despite never having played a note in his life. What begins as a simple act of love slowly unravels into a dreamlike journey through fractured memories, hallucinations, buried betrayals, and a mysterious space where time bends and second chances linger just out of reach.
As Reggie practices in secret, guided by an inner voice and the uncanny reappearances of his long-dead best friend Bernie, the boundaries between past and present blur. Lost love resurfaces, hidden truths about his marriage emerge, and the music itself becomes a vessel through which grief, guilt, and devotion collide. When Reggie's adult daughter Louise enters the story, forced to confront her father's fragile grasp on reality, the novel shifts into a powerful exploration of generational loss, forgiveness, and what it truly means to let someone go.
Part psychological drama, part magical realism, and part love letter to enduring relationships, Our Song is a story about unfinished conversations, the lies we tell ourselves to survive, and the fragile beauty of choosing connection over silence-no matter how late in the day it may be.
The self-titled album Elton John serves as the unofficial soundtrack to the novel, with "Your Song" beating at its emotional heart-a reminder that sometimes the simplest words, played imperfectly, can say everything we never dared to speak.