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Part I (Pages 1 - 55)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Kay, Jackie. Trumpet. Vintage (Random House), 1998.

• The book opens with a verse from a George Gershwin song, You Can't Take That Away From Me.

• The first section is titled House and Home and is narrated in the first person, present-tense from the point of view of Millie Moody.

• Millie looks at the throng of photographers outside her house. They are waiting there because her husband, famous jazz trumpeter Joss Moody, has died recently and it has been revealed that Joss was a transgender person who was born with a woman's sexual organs and lived life as a man.

• Millie feels trapped in her own house in London, where journalists and photographers are staked out waiting for her to come out.

• So Millie decides to flee to her vacation house in Torr...

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