Music & Silence
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award 1999
$35.89
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
21 May 2020
Summary
Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, Music & Silence is a story of love and divided loyalties set in seventeenth century Denmark.
“The best thing from Denmark since Hamlet.” - John Julius Norwich
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 realizes that the musicians perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, Peter Claire u…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099268550 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099268558 |
| Author: | Rose Tremain |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 21 May 2020 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
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 *
Intricate and sparkling … Ingenious, amusing and beautifully written * Observer *
A superb novel… a wonderful, joyously noisy book * Guardian *
The plot is ingenious… an unforgettable tapestry of Eros and of art * Evening Standard *
Lyrical, voluptuous… splendid… A sumptuous drama lit by the glamorous torchlight of the courtly past * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain’s novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many 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) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and France’s Prix Femina (Sacred Country), and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Absolutely and Forever (2023), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
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