Music & Silence by Rose Tremain
Set in early seventeenth-century Denmark, an English lutenist joins the court of a mercurial king whose failed wars and tumultuous marriage have thrown palace life into turmoil. As the musicians perform hidden beneath the banqueting hall, he falls in love with a kindhearted lady-in-waiting, their fragile happiness endangered by the king’s jealous consort and her formidable mother. Through shifting voices, the story explores the pull of desire and duty, the solace and danger of art, and the costs of ambition and betrayal.
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- 1999
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