Set in seventeenth-century Denmark, Rose Tremain's dazzling, prize-winning tale is a pungently atmospheric, richly provocative, and masterfully orchestrated romance of point and counterpoint: loyalty and deception...tenderness and violence...community and alienation...peace and...
A bold new novel from the author ofRestorationandThe Way I Found Her In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish court to join King Christian IV's royal orchestra. From the moment when he realizes that the musicians have to perform in a...
Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year, 1999. In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's...
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, 2008.
A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.