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Author Rachel Joyce on the music that inspired her latest, The Music Shop

Best-selling author Rachel Joyce joins Tom Power to talk about some of the songs featured in her novel The Music Shop, set in London in the late '80s.
Rachel Joyce is the best-selling author of The Music Shop. (Courtesy of the publicist)

Picture a vinyl record shop in London in 1988 lit by lava lamps and hazy with cigarette smoke. A relationship based entirely around music develops between the clerk behind the counter and a mysterious woman in a green pea coat. That's the starting point for the new novel The Music Shop by best-selling British author Rachel Joyce, who will join Tom to talk about some of the music from the book, from Beethoven to Van Morrison and Miles Davis to Vivaldi.

Produced by Chris Trowbridge