Adieu, Sweet Amarillis EPUB
by Philippa Pigache
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Love, secrets and sudden death - keynotes in the short life of composer Roland Fredricks, In 1992 Jonathan Burroughs is researching a biography for the centenary of Fredricks' birth.
Why the unexpected brilliance of his late work? What explains his mysterious death in 1941? Was he a genius, cut off in his prime, or a dissolute libertine?
Rumour and gossip are rife but evidence is elusive. Can Jonathan persuade the Fredricks women to talk? His daughter Gudrun, loathes him. His former-mistress, singer Paula Pignatilli, is now a recluse in her impregnable Italian palazzo.
But Anna Cummins who, as a student, had a bitter-sweet affair with Fredricks, is writing her memoirs.
Jonathan contrives to meet her, and through her, her granddaughter Ros.
Jonathan and Ros embark on a love affair that echoes Roland and Anna's 50 years earlier.
The story plays out to a soundtrack of great music: Messiah, Marriage of Figaro, Vivaldi's Four Seasons ... and the truth behind the Fredricks legend is solved only in the final bars.
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- Pages:308 pages
- Publisher:Cross-in-Hand Press
- Publication Date:19/12/2017
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- ISBN:9781999867416
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:308 pages
- Publisher:Cross-in-Hand Press
- Publication Date:19/12/2017
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- ISBN:9781999867416