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'When Mary Lanyon takes on the job of temporary housekeeper at Downe, a famous Merino stud, she is looking forward to staying in a gracious homestead with the wealthy Hazlitt family. The owner's wife, Clio, has been ill, and Mary's task is to get the house back into shape in the lead-up to the wedding of the only son and heir, Martin.
'When she arrives, however, Mary realises things are not right. Clio Hazlitt rarely ventures from her room. The house is shabby, redolent of dust and secrets. As a friendship develops between the women, Mary discovers answers to the questions that have puzzled her: What is the nature of Clio's illness? What has caused the grim estrangement between Clio and her husband? And why did Clio give up playing music, when she says it meant so much to her?
'A Darker Music is a gripping mystery that takes you into the heart of rural Western Australia, and into one family's troubled past.' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Epigraph:
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, strategems and spoils:
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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Darker Voices
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2010 - January 2011 no. 327 2010; (p. 31)
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 10 no. 4 2010;
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 October 2010; (p. 25)
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , October vol. 90 no. 3 2010; (p. 27)
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel -
Cover Notes
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 3 October 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel ; Like Being a Wife 2009 selected work short story
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Review
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25 - 26 September 2010; (p. 24)
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel -
Cover Notes
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 3 October 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel ; Like Being a Wife 2009 selected work short story -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , October vol. 90 no. 3 2010; (p. 27)
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 October 2010; (p. 25)
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 10 no. 4 2010;
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel -
First-Novel Triumph, at 70
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 19 February 2010; (p. 14) -
Undercover
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 February 2010; (p. 26) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on the first issue of the literary journal Kill Your Darlings. Wyndham also notes the winner of the inaugural CAL Scribe Fiction Prize - Maris Morton for A Darker Music. -
Repeat Offenders
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 142-148)
Awards
- 2010 winner CAL Scribe Fiction Prize
- Western Australia,