Only one new member says she and her husband love the new album, while they find Juliet too gloomy for their liking. In the epilogue, Duncan and other fans review on the fan website a new release from Tucker, which they think is terrible one of them writes 'Happiness Is Poison'. Duncan's paternalistic comment lets her realise that she's cured. Annie tells Duncan about it all and tells him that she would like to sell her house and move right away to America to join Tucker and Jackson. Annie says she has used a contraceptive, but she hadn't. At the party, Annie admits to Tucker that she likes him romantically, and afterwards they have sex. She suggests that Tucker could open it, but the councillor in charge says he's never heard of him and invites Gav and Barnsey to do it instead. An exhibition Annie has been working on opens at the Gooleness museum, where she works as a curator. She says she understands how he and she can't be close because it would mean giving up Juliet. They have tea together, and Tucker clarifies some of Duncan's beliefs about him, while Duncan expresses his love of his music. After considering it, Duncan comes over, and Tucker shows Duncan his passport as proof. Tucker introduces himself, but Duncan doesn't believe him. Annie encourages Tucker to meet Duncan, but he refuses. She also admits that she was in a relationship with Duncan, whom Tucker knows of from the website. They discuss his work Tucker sees it as inauthentic rubbish, while Annie thinks it is deep and meaningful music while clarifying that while the music is good, it doesn't mean that Tucker as a person is good. Tucker tells her about Grace and Juliet, and Annie insists he call his family. The next day Annie visits again, and Annie discovers he had not yet met with Grace. Annie visits him in the hospital, and he suggests staying at her house to avoid the family reunion. Lizzie invites all his children and their mothers to visit for a family reunion.Ī mini-narrative describes the events which caused Tucker to end his career after hearing that he had a daughter, Grace, from the relationship before/during Juliet. On arrival at the hospital in London, Tucker has a heart attack and is admitted. Tucker learns that Lizzie has lost the baby, and he and Jackson fly to London to see Lizzie. Annie discusses the incident the next day with Malcolm. Barnesy comes back to her house and tells her he loves her, but leaves after she says she won't sleep with him. She ponders the years she has wasted with Duncan and ends up going to the pub with her friend Ros she meets Gav and Barnesy, two Northern Soul dancers. Annie places a photo of Tucker and Jackson on her fridge and invites Duncan round to make him see it, gleeful that he doesn't know the significance of it, and tells him she is in a relationship with him. Cat breaks up with Tucker, but Tucker remains to look after Jackson. Duncan regrets leaving Annie but she refuses to take him back. The next day Annie talks to her judgmental therapist Malcolm. He tells Annie of his affair and she insists he move out. Lizzie reveals that she is visiting because she is pregnant.ĭuncan meets a new colleague called Gina, whom he sleeps with. He has five children from four relationships his youngest son Jackson and Jackson's mother, Cat, are the only ones he lives with. Tucker Crowe is in Pennsylvania preparing for a visit from his daughter Lizzie, whom he has never met. Further email correspondence ensues, much of which consumes Annie's thoughts. Annie writes a passionate article criticising it and receives an email response from Tucker Crowe himself. He writes an enthusiastic review for the fan website he runs. Duncan is angry, especially when she expresses her dislike for it. Duncan's girlfriend, Annie, opens it first and listens to it on her own. Hornby has identified parenting, love, and relationships as the book's themes.ĭuncan, an obsessive music fan, receives a CD of Juliet, Naked, an album of solo acoustic demos of the songs on the album Juliet by his favourite artist, Tucker Crowe. The novel has been compared with Hornby's second novel, High Fidelity. The plot revolves around the release of Juliet, Naked, the first new Tucker Crowe album in over two decades. It tells the story of Annie, the long-suffering girlfriend of obsessed music fan Duncan, and the object of his obsession, singer-songwriter Tucker Crowe.

Juliet, Naked is a novel by the British author Nick Hornby published in 2009.

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