Music & Silence

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Chatto & Windus, 1999 - Fiction - 453 pages
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 perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, Peter Claire understands that he's come to a place where the opposing states of light and dark, good and evil are waging war to the death. Designated the King's 'Angel' because of his good looks, he finds himself falling in love with the young woman who is the companion of the King's adulterous and estranged wife, Kirsten. With his loyalties fatally divided between duty and passion, how can Peter Claire find the path that will realize his hopes and save his soul?

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"Music & Silence" is Rose Tremain's eighth novel. She has completed a screenplay based on Anthony Trollope's "The Eustace Diamonds" and is adapting "Sacred Country" in three parts for television. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger ("Sacred Country"), the "Sunday Express" Book of the Year and the Booker Prize Shortlist ("Restoration"), the Dylan Thomas Short Story Award ("The Colonel's Daughter"), a Giles Cooper Award (for the play "Temporary Shelter") and the Angel Literary Award (twice).

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