Music and Freedom

Music and Freedom
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Publisher : Random House Australia
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9781925324228
ISBN-13 : 1925324222
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Book Synopsis Music and Freedom by : Zoï Morrison

Download or read book Music and Freedom written by Zoï Morrison and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have no use for forgiveness, not yet. But other ideas like that, kindness, for example, I think that is fundamental. Resurrection; I like that too. And love, of course, love, love, love. Alice Murray learns to play the piano aged three on an orange orchard in rural Australia. Recognising her daughter's gift, her mother sends Alice to boarding school in the bleak north of England, and there Alice stays for the rest of her childhood. Then she's offered a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, and on a summer school in Oxford she meets Edward, an economics professor who sweeps her off her feet. Alice soon finds that Edwards is damaged, and she's trapped. She clings to her playing and to her dream of becoming a concert pianist, until disaster strikes. Increasingly isolated as the years unravel, eventually Alice can't find it in herself to carry on. Then she hears a single piano note emerge, repeatedly, from the walls of her house. And then that note turns into music ...


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