B- Reviews / Book Reviewsclassical music / First-Person / high school sweethearts / mature / musician / second chance at love / Young-AdultComments Off on REVIEW: Strings: a love story by Megan Edwards
The Merino Rose. Ted Spencer has a hard enough time believing the celebrated violin really exists. To find it sitting on his coffee table is nothing short of incredible. The stuff of legend, the exquisite Guarnerius has been missing for centuries. But even though the renowned instrument is a violin ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1970s / classical music / England / Opera Singer / Warrender SagaComments Off on REVIEW: Remembered Serenade by Mary Burchell
Fresh out of music college, Joanna Ransome hopes to forge a career as a singer. She’s touched and grateful for the help and interest of old Mr. Wilmore, who she feels she owes everything. He gets her off to a promising start, and soon enough she’s introduced to the great ... more >
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After years of hard training Anna was ready to launch into a career in the world of music. Everything seemed to be going welt until family troubles forced her to turn down the chance of a lifetime to join a Canadian tour, organized by the dynamic Jonathan Keyne. But now ... more >
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Mary loved music, and was thrilled to be working as secretary to a famous impressario — but it was another matter when she found herself becoming involved with one of his clients, the celebrated singer, Nicholas Brenner. She told herself firmly that she could never really belong in Nicholas’s world ... more >
B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / classical music / England / teacher heroine / Warrender SagaComments Off on JOINT REVIEW: Child of Music by Mary Burchell
Felicity Grainger had not liked Stephen Tarkman of the Tarkman Musical Foundation when she had once sat next to him at a dinner party. He had the air, she felt, of a man who wields power and enjoys the fact and she had rather made plain her dislike. Then she ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1960s / classical music / England / Musicians / Opera Singer / Warrender Saga9 Comments
Nicola was looking forward to marrying violist Brian when he came back from his tour of Canada. However Brian became ill and died suddenly. Months later Nicola had the opportunity to meet Brian’s boss Julian a world famous conductor. Nicola finds that she likes Julian very much but is later ... more >