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An Equal Music
On sale
7th October 2004
Price: £10.99
‘A masterpiece’ Daily Mail
‘Will still be read with pleasure and absorption decades from now’ Spectator
‘A wonder-work: irresistible, tense, deeply moving’ Sunday Times
‘An extraordinary book’ Independent on Sunday
A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music . . . AN EQUAL MUSIC is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life. It is the story of Michael, of Julia, and of the love that binds them.
‘A novel that can stand being reread and reread, but the first time round is an emotional cliffhanger … secure a copy for yourself, settle down, and prepare for the unforgettable’ Sunday Times
‘Will still be read with pleasure and absorption decades from now’ Spectator
‘A wonder-work: irresistible, tense, deeply moving’ Sunday Times
‘An extraordinary book’ Independent on Sunday
A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music . . . AN EQUAL MUSIC is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life. It is the story of Michael, of Julia, and of the love that binds them.
‘A novel that can stand being reread and reread, but the first time round is an emotional cliffhanger … secure a copy for yourself, settle down, and prepare for the unforgettable’ Sunday Times
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Reviews
Seth offers emotional sensitivity of the rarest order and a poignancy that invites an almost painful empathy
Seth succeeds in the rare and beautiful achievement of articulating musical experience
The finest novel about music written in English
A masterpiece ... as clear, lovely and civilised as a Schubert quartet
Seth's novel is a wonder-work: irresistible, tense, deeply moving
Secure a copy for yourself, settle down and prepare for the unforgettable
The fullest portrait I have ever read in fiction of a musician's relationship to his music ... brilliant
A virtuoso performance, wrapping love, life and music into an absorbing read
This book is music ... It's an extraordinary book that finds music in everything and everything in music
Will still be read with pleasure and absorption decades from now
A hauntingly beautiful story about loss and love, and the power of music to transform human experience