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Author:agent Sonia Orchard

Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 The Virtuoso

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'"Looking back, I realise I'd always been waiting for the arrival of Noël Mewton-Wood. His entrance occurred with such ease that I began to believe he'd always been there, standing in the wings, long before I'd even laid eyes on him."

'London, November 1945: at a bohemian party, a young music student meets the charismatic concert pianist Noël Mewton-Wood. The two immediately become lovers, and the affair unleashes an overwhelming passion as grand and sublime as the music they both love.

'Ten years on, the student, now a successful writer, reflects on the affair, the forces that shaped him and the one he adored, and the romantic obsession that ruled and almost ruined his life.

'This assured, beautifully written debut novel is inspired by the brilliant life of Australian pianist Noël Mewton-Wood. Sonia Orchard vividly evokes the artistic world of post-war London in a novel of striking illuminations about music and imagination that is also a compelling and deeply moving love story.' (Publisher's blurb)

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Epigraph: I've found out nothing sharpens the imagination as much as expecting and longing for something, and this is how I've been for the last few days. I have been waiting for your letter, and as a result have written books-ful of pieces - amazing, crazy, sober stuff ... I sometimes feel as if I'm simply bursting with music. - Robert Schumann
Dedication: For James and Sunday

And with a very special thanks to John Amis, John Dalby and my mother

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— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 359 2010; (p. 27)

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— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 54 no. 1 2009; (p. 51-64)
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The Other Noel Carol Middleton , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 309 2009; (p. 43)
— Review of The Virtuoso Sonia Orchard , 2009 single work novel

Subterranean Echoes Catherine Ford , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , March vol. 4 no. 2 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of The Book of Emmett Deborah Forster , 2009 single work novel ; The Virtuoso Sonia Orchard , 2009 single work novel ; Things We Didn't See Coming Steven Amsterdam , 2009 selected work short story

Fiction and Non-Fiction Books Julia Ross , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 - 22 February 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of The Virtuoso Sonia Orchard , 2009 single work novel

[Review] The Virtuoso Brendan Gullifer , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2008-2009 vol. 88 no. 5 2008; (p. 49)
— Review of The Virtuoso Sonia Orchard , 2009 single work novel

Souls Draped in Life's Music Diane Stubbings , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 January 2009; (p. 13)
— Review of The Virtuoso Sonia Orchard , 2009 single work novel

Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 1 February 2009; (p. 29)
— Review of The Virtuoso Sonia Orchard , 2009 single work novel ; Lines of Wisdom : Young Writers, Old Stories, Timeless Encounters 2008 anthology biography

Playing a Grand Obsession Rebecca Starford , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 February 2009; (p. 27)
— Review of The Virtuoso Sonia Orchard , 2009 single work novel

Worthy Pursuit of Tortured Soloist Kathy Hunt , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 February 2009; (p. 11)
— Review of The Virtuoso Sonia Orchard , 2009 single work novel