Music & Silence

Music & Silence

by RoseTremain (Author)

Synopsis

In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. From the moment when he realises that the musicians perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, Peter Claire understands that he's come to a place where the opposing states of light and dark, good and evil, are waging war to the death. Designated the King's 'Angel' because of his good looks, he finds himself falling in love with the young woman who is the companion of the King's adulterous and estranged wife, Kirsten. With his loyalties fatally divided between duty and passion, how can Peter Claire find the path that will realise his hopes and save his soul?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Jul 2000

ISBN 10: 0099268558
ISBN 13: 9780099268550
Book Overview: WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD
Prizes: Winner of Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1999 and Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1999.

Media Reviews
The best thing from Denmark since Hamlet. * John Julius Norwich *
A magnificent novel... a brilliant book which will repay many readings * The Times *
She is the best historical novelist of her generation. She evokes the past with sensuality, wit and superb sleights of hand... The plot is ingenious...an unforgettable tapestry of Eros and of art -- A. N. Wilson
Tremain's achievement in Music & Silence is extraordinary ... A narrative as funny as it is compelling * Daily Telegraph *
Tremain weaves her web of stories with great visual flair and emotional acuity: This is a fabulous cacophony of passion and despair * Metro *
Author Bio
Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk