Local library now open again, post lockdown, so opportunity to try some books.
This was very good – an almost 19th century novel written in the early 21st century.
Brodie Moncur is a young Scottish piano tuner, despatched to Paris by his Edinburgh employer (a piano manufacturer) to help run the Paris outlet of the business.
Brodie’s (very 21st century) business idea is to sponsor a concert pianist, giving him a fee per performance and a perfectly tuned piano manufactured by his employer.
Brodie meets and falls in love with the pianist’s mistress (actually his brother’s wife). I am not too sure why love is any blinder in this novel than elsewhere, but suffice to say the affair does not develop happily, although I think the two continue to love each other.
A very good, if slightly 19th century style read.
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