The Girl with Twenty Fingers

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by Kate Mueser

Synopsis

Sarahโ€™s hope of becoming a concert pianist was shattered when she bombed an important performance of a Mozart concerto. Now in Munich, she feels like an imposter in her job as a food magazine editor. A chance encounter in a music shop leads to a surprising friendship with an elderly widower with a unique grand piano. When they start meeting to play Mozartโ€™s works for four hands, Sarah unravels the mysteries of his war-time past, uproots a musical secret in her own family โ€” and finds the strength to redirect her own future.

Laced with melodies from Mozart and Schumann to Toto and Nena,ย The Girl with Twenty Fingers will delight readers, while asking the question: Can music change lives? Kate Mueserโ€™s debut novel cracks open notions of failure and second chances, living to the fullest and dying without regrets, and cultural identity and privilege, making it both timeless and urgently relevant to our age.


ย Filled with wonderfully flawed characters andย lyrical prose, Mueserโ€™s debut is sure to delightย the senses. A must read for fans who love storiesย about secrets, family and second chances.
Kerry Lonsdale, Wall Street Journal,ย Washington Post and Amazon chartsย bestselling author

ย In Kate Mueserโ€™s Munich, strangers become friends,ย Mozart brings distant generations together, andย piano duets underscore the doubts and hopes ofย asymmetrical human historyโ€ฆ But who in theย story gives and who receives the greatest gift?
–ย Virginia Euwer Wolff, Nationalย Book Award-winning author ofย The Mozart Season

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Weight 16 oz
Published

27 January 2023

Book type

e-book, Paperback