Hints and tips:
...“Maids”, an affectionate waltz, came next, and then a ballad, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington’s “Isfahan”, articulated roundly with vibrato and slurs....
...She came to Channel 4 from the BBC, where she commissioned Billy Elliot while head of drama, television and film....
...Cinder is Billy’s mother, and the novel, narrated in the often devastating patterns of southern black speech, opens as the body of her son is unloaded off the train....
...She knows all about Billy - Billy to whom it has long since occurred that maybe he joined the police to protect himself from doing wrong....
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