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Review
'This is a charming and uplifting book.' --Piers Morgan
'Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like this?' --Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal
'Elegantly structured, tinglingly evocative of the passion and brutality of first love - a wonderful read.' --Louise Candlish
Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano teacher, the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Kim's life is destined never to be the same again. An intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love. Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy. "The Well-Tempered Clavier" is the bittersweet story of a life-changin
'This is a charming and uplifting book.' --Piers Morgan
'Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like this?' --Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal
'Elegantly structured, tinglingly evocative of the passion and brutality of first love - a wonderful read.' --Louise Candlish
Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano teacher, the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Kim's life is destined never to be the same again. An intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love. Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy. "The Well-Tempered Clavier" is the bittersweet story of a life-changin