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Strung Along
New Zealand Listener
|February 16-22, 2019
The story of a luthier’s pursuit of love and happiness is an assured and rewarding read.
Grace Atherton is a cellist whose dreams of being a professional musician were crushed by a bullying tutor. In middle age, she’s doing nicely as a luthier, but her passion is David, a married man with whom she is having a long-term affair.
David is a touch too elegant and charming; you’ll suspect early on that he’s actually an arse, but it takes two unlikely friends, an old flame and a prestigious instrument-making competition to persuade Grace of that fact. And further, to convince her that she deserves more.
This story is from the February 16-22, 2019 edition of New Zealand Listener.
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