Virginia Knight: >This book's been discussed on the list a couple of times. See the thread >'Music in Fiction' (June 2000) and 'A Good Read' (March/April 2001). Thanks. I actually did a search on classical.net but not in the list archives, not realizing that those search engines did not speak to one another. Either I missed or wasn't struck by the comments at the time. I read the book recently on the strong recommendation of a friend and I would be happy to discuss it off-list with anyone who has read it. Jim Tobin