Heart and Soul

by Sally Mandel

Book Overview

A woman reaches for one impossible chance at a happy ending in this bittersweet Cinderella story by the bestselling author of Change of Heart. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345428927
• ISBN13: 9780345428929
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

I'll remember it for a very long time!

I loved this book! It had some little flaws and it was sometimes very sad... but I enjoy stories that are different from the traditional ones where everything is so perfect and happy. It was a book full of life, passion, music, hurt, love and madness... And last but not least it had a wonderful heroine, Bess!!!

This book is amazing...

I loved this book. I mean, LOVED it. I first read 'Out of the Blue' and searched for another Sally Mandel book for months when before this one finally came out. Bess is a strong female character who we see become a confident, successful, and happy woman after going through many setbacks in her life.

Heart and Soul

Very few books do I read the last line and and then just sit there and go "Wow" but this is one of them. The humor helps with the emotional upheavals. Loved it.

realistic yet beautiful love story

Rocky Beach, a working class town in Nassau County, Long Island is home to Bess Stallone (no relation to the movie star) who defies her parents to take piano lessons from the music teacher at her school. She enters the competition to go to the prestigious Julliard School and works many part time jobs to pay for her lessons. She is a musical prodigy who is so afraid of performing in front of an audience that she faints whenever she tries. When David Montagnier, a former child prodigy, comes into her life, he wants Bess as his partner in his two-piano repertoire. He isn't afraid she will faint and embarrass them both and as time goes by, she becomes one with David and the music while overcoming her stage freight. The pair is together both professionally and personally until tragedy strikes and Bess must find the courage to go on alone. New York Times best-selling author Sally Mandel has written a realistic yet beautiful love story that will warm the heart of readers. Bess' meteoric rise to fame feels like it could happen to anyone who has talent. HEART AND SOUL is a heartwarming work that will be placed on the romance reader's keeper shelf.Harriet Klausner