Partita

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY- THE TIMES

SUBTLE, UNDENIABLE, AND THEN FULL-ON BLAZING- RACHEL JOYCE

A VIRTUOSIC PERFORMANCE - THE FINANCIAL TIMES

PROFOUND . . . I WAS GRIPPED BY IT, UTTERLY- KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE

FULL OF PATHOS, WISDOM AND HUMOUR- THE SPECTATOR

I COULDNT PUT IT DOWN - BONNIE GARMUS

Youve taken Demon to your hearts, prepare for another emotionally raw, riotously entertaining read as you meet Livia.

A song without any answer in it? Thats the sound of waiting.


Livia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death, and the stifling silence of the family farm, eleven-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her only solace: music, an escape in the quiet rapture piano practice brings. The promise of a new life her talent offers, intoxicating.

So when Livia starts her college music scholarship it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she struggles to fit in with more urbane classmates, she glimpses the possibilities of a life beyond the farm and her parents.

Then one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and crocuses and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, muscles you wouldnt miss in the rear view:

Who is that man?

It is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked.

From one of the greatest writers alive comes Livias story, Partita, both a coming-of-age narrative and an examination of midlife hopes and regrets, a novel as simple as love and longing, as touching, complex and finely tuned as the music it celebrates.

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