Summer Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements
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Author: Colin Duckworth
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 348
In London's Festival Hall Alan Scott's "Symphony of Universal Healing" is first performed. Its mystic harmonics have extraordinary effects on the audience: an elderly woman stands up, exclaiming she has not been able to do that for years. Another, younger, woman, admits without embarrassment that the performance gave her an orgasm. In this predominantly English middle-class audience the unthinkable has happened. People start to talk openly about an unusual feeling of well-being. After the concert a stranger introduces himself to Alan and his wife as an old school friend, Keith Maxtel. From that point on, the disquieting past intrudes. The chequered love story of Alan and his wife Bella begins when they are fifteen and Hitler's bombs are raining down on England. Their musical quest (mystical to Alan, scientific to neuropsychologist Bella) is sparked by their experience of an inexplicable healing phenomenon in a Norman ch teau during the Liberation. It extends to the past and the future, from Paris in the 1890s to California in the early 21st century. Alan is determined to find out why he, a musically gifted but nondescript boy from a suburban background, became guardian of such powerful mystical harmonies. Harmonies which others might seek for their dark and destructive aspects. Alan and Bella's decisions will prove crucial. "Duckworth's pace and timing are just about perfect" - "The Weekend Australian".
Author: Colin Duckworth
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 348
In London's Festival Hall Alan Scott's "Symphony of Universal Healing" is first performed. Its mystic harmonics have extraordinary effects on the audience: an elderly woman stands up, exclaiming she has not been able to do that for years. Another, younger, woman, admits without embarrassment that the performance gave her an orgasm. In this predominantly English middle-class audience the unthinkable has happened. People start to talk openly about an unusual feeling of well-being. After the concert a stranger introduces himself to Alan and his wife as an old school friend, Keith Maxtel. From that point on, the disquieting past intrudes. The chequered love story of Alan and his wife Bella begins when they are fifteen and Hitler's bombs are raining down on England. Their musical quest (mystical to Alan, scientific to neuropsychologist Bella) is sparked by their experience of an inexplicable healing phenomenon in a Norman ch teau during the Liberation. It extends to the past and the future, from Paris in the 1890s to California in the early 21st century. Alan is determined to find out why he, a musically gifted but nondescript boy from a suburban background, became guardian of such powerful mystical harmonies. Harmonies which others might seek for their dark and destructive aspects. Alan and Bella's decisions will prove crucial. "Duckworth's pace and timing are just about perfect" - "The Weekend Australian".
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Colin Duckworth
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 348
In London's Festival Hall Alan Scott's "Symphony of Universal Healing" is first performed. Its mystic harmonics have extraordinary effects on the audience: an elderly woman stands up, exclaiming she has not been able to do that for years. Another, younger, woman, admits without embarrassment that the performance gave her an orgasm. In this predominantly English middle-class audience the unthinkable has happened. People start to talk openly about an unusual feeling of well-being. After the concert a stranger introduces himself to Alan and his wife as an old school friend, Keith Maxtel. From that point on, the disquieting past intrudes. The chequered love story of Alan and his wife Bella begins when they are fifteen and Hitler's bombs are raining down on England. Their musical quest (mystical to Alan, scientific to neuropsychologist Bella) is sparked by their experience of an inexplicable healing phenomenon in a Norman ch teau during the Liberation. It extends to the past and the future, from Paris in the 1890s to California in the early 21st century. Alan is determined to find out why he, a musically gifted but nondescript boy from a suburban background, became guardian of such powerful mystical harmonies. Harmonies which others might seek for their dark and destructive aspects. Alan and Bella's decisions will prove crucial. "Duckworth's pace and timing are just about perfect" - "The Weekend Australian".
Author: Colin Duckworth
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 348
In London's Festival Hall Alan Scott's "Symphony of Universal Healing" is first performed. Its mystic harmonics have extraordinary effects on the audience: an elderly woman stands up, exclaiming she has not been able to do that for years. Another, younger, woman, admits without embarrassment that the performance gave her an orgasm. In this predominantly English middle-class audience the unthinkable has happened. People start to talk openly about an unusual feeling of well-being. After the concert a stranger introduces himself to Alan and his wife as an old school friend, Keith Maxtel. From that point on, the disquieting past intrudes. The chequered love story of Alan and his wife Bella begins when they are fifteen and Hitler's bombs are raining down on England. Their musical quest (mystical to Alan, scientific to neuropsychologist Bella) is sparked by their experience of an inexplicable healing phenomenon in a Norman ch teau during the Liberation. It extends to the past and the future, from Paris in the 1890s to California in the early 21st century. Alan is determined to find out why he, a musically gifted but nondescript boy from a suburban background, became guardian of such powerful mystical harmonies. Harmonies which others might seek for their dark and destructive aspects. Alan and Bella's decisions will prove crucial. "Duckworth's pace and timing are just about perfect" - "The Weekend Australian".
Summer Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements
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