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'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
'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
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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-changing love.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Every schoolboy should own a copy,
By J Wilson (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Paperback)
Steamy love stories can be difficult to pull off, but William Coles certainly knows a thing or two about romance. The story is set at Eton, where schoolboy Kim has a passionate affair with his piano teacher India, who for some reason seems to wear nothing but white clothes, and - as most of their lusty romps take place outside - it's a wonder she can find time to prepare her piano classes in between washing the grass stains out of her frocks. The love making scenes are in plentiful supply and are written not only with warmth and sensitivity but are pretty damn happy too.Jealousy, rejection, suspense and lust are all here and used to great effect. The details of Etonian life are fascinating and provide a great backdrop for a story that keeps you on the edge with twists and turns in every chapter and guessing to the very last sentence. This book is 'based on a true story' and the reader can't help but wonder if it is about a future UK Prime Minister or a tousled blonde mayor of London in waiting... I would recommend this book to women who are bored with chick lit and like their romance served up with wit, intelligence and lashings of sex on the side. Men should read it if they would like a few tips. Needless to say, every schoolboy should own a copy.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Buy your cinema ticket now,
By Elizabeth Colwell (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Paperback)
This delightful novel marks Bill Coles' transition from successful journalist to fledgling author. My guess is that it might also be his first foray into providing screenplay material because it simply asks to be up on the big screen. If you like your books by Nick, your films by Richard, your diaries by Bridget and your heroines by Keira you will be happy to spend a few hours racing through this engaging tale in the company of a deep sofa, liquid refreshment appropriate for the hour of day and your adoring dog/cat/hamster curled on a rug at your feet. Coles is smart enough to know that Eton usually provokes a response (for good or ill) and now the mildly or wildly curious can glimpse life for the average inmate. He's also good at playing amusing games with his readers, stirring enough truth from his own life into the fictional mix to get us wondering about where Kim starts and Bill ends. The core of this book is the author's sensitive and lucid description of the intimacy which gradually develops between Kim and his piano teacher, India. Through it we are reminded that what we see on the surface often belies what is beneath. Kim begins the narrative by telling us that he is 'not given to emotion'. It is no accident that his last word is of love.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
hilarious portrayal of teenage love angst,
By Anna (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Paperback)
This book is good fun. It gives a hilarious protrayal of the love angst of a boy in his late teens trying to engage with the fairer sex. Being at an all male boarding school, it is all totally beyond his experience. The author brings out beautifully the excitement of discovering this virgin territory. The passages describing how the hero, even though being in the throes of the love affair of his life, interacts with other available women, made me laugh out loud. And if you've ever wondered what life at Eton is like, this is a great insider view. Although a romp, the book isn't just frivolous. By the end, you have been drawn in and feel like you've been punched in the stomach. It's written, as you might expect from former Sun journalist, in a way that grabs your attention and keeps you turning the pages. I hope there will be more from this author.
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