Bibliograph

The variations, Patrick Langley

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Label

The variations, Patrick Langley

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The variations

Responsibility statement

Patrick Langley

Summary

"The Variations" is a novel about music and the difficulty, or impossibility, of living with the past. Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. She was educated at Agnes' Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which for centuries has offered its young wards a grounding in the gift, an inherited ability to tune into the voices and sounds of the past. When she dies, Selda's gift passes down to her grandson Wolf, who must make sense of her legacy, and learn to live with the newly unleashed voices in his head

Target audience

adult

Creator