Partita

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY'

• THE TIMES 'SUBTLE, UNDENIABLE, AND THEN FULL-ON BLAZING'
• RACHEL JOYCE 'A VIRTUOSIC PERFORMANCE'
• THE FINANCIAL TIMES 'PROFOUND . . . I WAS GRIPPED BY IT, UTTERLY'
• KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE 'FULL OF PATHOS, WISDOM AND HUMOUR'
• THE SPECTATOR 'I COULDN't PUT IT DOWN'
• BONNIE GARMUS You've taken Demon to your hearts, prepare for another 'emotionally raw, riotously entertaining' read as you meet Livia. A song without any answer in it? That's the sound of waiting. Livia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death, and the stifling silence of the family farm, eleven-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her only solace: music, an escape in the quiet rapture piano practice brings. The promise of a new life her talent offers, intoxicating. So when Livia starts her college music scholarship it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she struggles to fit in with more urbane classmates, she glimpses the possibilities of a life beyond the farm and her parents. Then one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and crocuses and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, muscles you wouldn't miss in the rear view: 'Who is that man?' It is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked. From one of the greatest writers alive comes Livia's story, Partita, both a coming-of-age narrative and an examination of midlife hopes and regrets, a novel as simple as love and longing, as touching, complex and finely tuned as the music it celebrates. READERS LOVED PARTITA: 'A VIRTUOSO WORTHY OF A STANDING OVATION' 'COMPELLING, EMOTIONALLY RICH, IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP READING' 'MY GOODNESS KINGSOLVER CAN WRITE' 'A TRUE WORK OF ART. THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE HELL OF A BOOK HANGOVER'