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‘A masterpiece’ Daily Mail

‘Will still be read with pleasure and absorption decades from now’ Spectator

‘A wonder-work: irresistible, tense, deeply moving’ Sunday Times

‘An extraordinary book’ Independent on Sunday

A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music . . . AN EQUAL MUSIC is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life. It is the story of Michael, of Julia, and of the love that binds them.

‘A novel that can stand being reread and reread, but the first time round is an emotional cliffhanger … secure a copy for yourself, settle down, and prepare for the unforgettable’ Sunday Times

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Secure a copy for yourself, settle down and prepare for the unforgettable * SUNDAY TIMES * The finest novel about music written in English * DAILY TELEGRAPH * A hauntingly beautiful story about loss and love, and the power of music to transform human experience * MAIL ON SUNDAY * Will still be read with pleasure and absorption decades from now * SPECTATOR * A masterpiece ... as clear, lovely and civilised as a Schubert quartet * DAILY MAIL * Seth's novel is a wonder-work: irresistible, tense, deeply moving * SUNDAY TIMES * Seth offers emotional sensitivity of the rarest order and a poignancy that invites an almost painful empathy * ECONOMIST * The fullest portrait I have ever read in fiction of a musician's relationship to his music ... brilliant * DAILY TELEGRAPH * This book is music ... It's an extraordinary book that finds music in everything and everything in music * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY * Seth succeeds in the rare and beautiful achievement of articulating musical experience * THE TIMES * A virtuoso performance, wrapping love, life and music into an absorbing read * EVENING STANDARD *