Good evening everyone I hope you’ve had a great Easter weekend! I have a book spotlight on my blog today for The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable.
This is one of my most anticipated reads for this year and I’m very excited to read it soon. I love historical fiction, especially if it features real life historical figures that I hadn’t heard of before so this book sounds right up my street.
Huge thanks to Bloomsbury for sending me a copy of this book.
Out 15th August 2024!
Is this book on your radar?
Book Synopsis:
Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away. At the Ospedale della Pietà, abandoned orphan girls are posted every day through a tiny gap in the wall.
Anna Maria is just one of the three hundred girls growing up within the Pietà’s walls – but she already knows she is different. Obsessive and gifted, she is on a mission to become Venice’s greatest violinist and composer, and in her remarkable world of colour and sound, it seems like nothing will stop her.
But the odds are stacked against an orphan girl – so when the maestro selects her as his star pupil, Anna Maria knows she must do everything in her power to please this difficult, brilliant man. But as Anna Maria’s star rises, threatening to eclipse that of her mentor, the dream she has so single-mindedly pursued is thrown into peril.
From the jewelled palaces of Venice to its mud-licked canals, this is a story of one woman’s irrepressible ambition and rise to the top, of loss and triumph, and of who we choose to remember and those who lie forgotten.
About The Author:
Harriet Constable is a writer and filmmaker based in London. Her debut novel, The Instrumentalist, will publish globally in August 2024. Her work has featured in The New York Times, The Economist and on the BBC.
Portrait by Sophie Davidson.
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I love the sound of this so I’m definitely adding it to my tbr! x
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