<b>Secure a copy for yourself, settle down and prepare for the unforgettable</b>
SUNDAY TIMES
<b>The finest novel about music written in English</b>
DAILY TELEGRAPH
<b>A hauntingly beautiful story about loss and love, and the power of music to transform human experience</b>
MAIL ON SUNDAY
<b>Will still be read with pleasure and absorption decades from now</b>
SPECTATOR
<b>A masterpiece ... as clear, lovely and civilised as a Schubert quartet</b>
DAILY MAIL
<b>Seth's novel is a wonder-work: irresistible, tense, deeply moving</b>
SUNDAY TIMES
<b>Seth offers emotional sensitivity of the rarest order and a poignancy that invites an almost painful empathy</b>
ECONOMIST
<b>The fullest portrait I have ever read in fiction of a musician's relationship to his music ... brilliant</b>
DAILY TELEGRAPH
<b>This book <i>is </i>music ... It's an extraordinary book that finds music in everything and everything in music</b>
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
<b>Seth succeeds in the rare and beautiful </b><b>achievement</b><b> of articulating musical experience</b>
THE TIMES
<p><b>A virtuoso performance, wrapping love, life and music into an absorbing read</b></p>
EVENING STANDARD