The variations

Langley, Patrick

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Bold and immersive, The Variations is a novel of startling originality about music and the difficulty – or impossibility – of living with the past.

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Publish Date: 07/09/2023

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Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. She was educated at Agnes’s Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which for centuries has offered its young wards a grounding in the gift – an inherited ability to tune into the voices and sounds of the past. When she dies, Selda’s gift passes down to her grandson Wolf, who must make sense of her legacy, and learn to live with the newly unleashed voices in his head. Ambitious and exhilarating, The Variations is a novel of startling originality about music and the difficulty – or impossibility – of living with the past.

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Dimensions 197 × 125 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

464

Language

English

Edition

|Paperback original

Dewey

823.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K