The music room
Kalpakian, Laura2017
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1969: Young Marcella and Rose-Renee's parents are divorcing - their mother going to Sweden to sing opera, and their father travelling across the US as a jobbing actor. An inconvenient hindrance to their careers, the two girls are left to live with their enigmatic grandmother Gloria, a renowned violinist, in her decaying New England mansion. Instructed never to disturb the formidable woman as she endlessly rehearses in the music room, the children are left to their own devices. Their cheerful neighbour, Dorothea, convinces Gloria to allow them to be home-schooled with her sickly son, Rodney; and as the girls' gifts are nurtured in ways they have never before experienced, they also receive warmth and care that are otherwise lacking in their lives. But when disaster strikes, and Dorothea is gone, where will they find help?
Main title:
The music room / Laura Kalpakian.
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Imprint:
Leicester : Thorpe, 2017.
Collation:
372 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Audience:
Adult.
ISBN:
9781444831023144483102X
Language:
English
BRN:
321174