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{{newreview
|author=Virginia Burges
|title=The Virtuoso
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The title character of ''The Virtuoso'' is Isabelle Bryant, a professional violinist who has earned the affectionate nickname of 'Beethoven's Babe'. She was the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition and gave her first solo performance, of Beethoven's violin concerto, at Royal Albert Hall. 'Her violin represented another limb to her, it was that precious. It felt so natural, like an extension of her body.' It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the violin is Isabelle's life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Anne Tyler
All is calm, until one day Annemarie finds herself pregnant.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783753080</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Braham
|title=The Pink House at Appleton
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Boyd Longfellow Brookes he's musing over the fact that - however much you might wish otherwise - sounds, smells or small details can evoke the most painful of memories in full Technicolor. On this particular afternoon it was the music - Saint-Saens ''Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor'' - which brought back the scene which regularly invaded his dreams ''and'' his waking hours. Once again he was the eight-year-old boy whose father was thrashing him with a leather strap whilst his mother wept and Papa demanded to know if Boyd had molested the young daughter of a neighbour. He didn't even know the meaning of ''molest'' but the expressions on the faces of those around him told him all he needed to know.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848767455</amazonuk>
}}

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