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|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=Adam Foulds
|summary=Emily ''easier for English people to pronounce than Emilienne'', lives in a council tower block, barely furnished, but still - for her - a place of safety, a place of anonymity, which is the best way for her to exist. She cleans commercial premises and relishes the work. She makes her small earnings go as far as possible, shopping locally, living frugally.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909878847</amazonuk>
}}
