As she prepares dinner for her husband and their extended family, Suzanne hears on the radio that a jetliner has crashed and her lover is dead. Alex Elling was a renowned orchestra conductor. Suzanne is a concert violist, long unsatisfied with her marriage to a composer whose music turns emotion into thought. Now, more alone than she�s ever been, she must grieve secretly. But as complex as that effort is, it pales with the arrival of Alex�s widow, who blackmails her into completing the score for Alex�s unfinished viola concerto. As Suzanne struggles to keep her double life a secret from her husband, from her best friend, and from the other members of her quartet, she is consumed by memories of a rich love affair saturated with music. Increasingly manipulated by her lover�s widow and tormented by the concerto�s many layers, Suzanne realizes she may lose everything she�s spent her life working for. A story of love, loss, sex, class, and betrayal, this psychologically compelling novel explores the ways that artists� lives and work interact, the nature of relationships among women as friends and competitors, and what it means to make a life of art.
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