Lily is 15 and leaves early for school. Her dad’s drinking drives her nuts, her unemployed brothers argue all the time and her mum’s not yet back from the nightshift at the bakery.
So Lily gets into school at 7, has a breakfast of a bun and apple drink – and zooms off to the music room, where Ms Chopin has made the piano available. Here for about an hour Lily plays boogie-woogie, Albert Ammon and Pete Johnson. She tears into the likes of Boogie-Woogie Dream. Her hands fly in a blur of syncopation. Notes tumble, spill, cascade, bop and dance and she sighs and shrieks.
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