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The Well-tempered Clavier

Synopsis:

Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano teacher, the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Kim's life is destined never to be the same again. An intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love. Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy. "The Well-Tempered Clavier" is the bittersweet story of a life-changing love.

Reviews:

'Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like this?' Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal'Elegantly structured, tinglingly evocative of the passion and brutality of first love - a wonderful read.' Louise Candlish'It captures beautifully those heady summer days when we were young and exams were finished and we would while away those lazy summer school afternoons and the future looked bright and all seemed possible.' Random Jottings

Author Biography:

William has been a journalist for 18 years - which he thinks is probably the reason why he hates working in little pokey offices or libraries. Instead, he likes writing in coffee-bars and internet cafes with a wall of white noise and coffee on tap. Even though he s now written his first novel and plans to write many more, he still loves the tension and deadlines of journalism.

Additional Information:

Related subjects: Modern fiction