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A gorgeous novel of music, secrets and self-discovery from the brilliant young author of Braised Pork.

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. With her marriage, she gave up on her own career as a concert pianist, but her husband Bowen has long rebuffed her desire to have a child.

Instead, she must accommodate her mother-in-law, newly arrived from the province of Yunnan and bringing with her long-buried family secrets. Soon strange parcels start to show up on the doorstep and Song Yan's dreams become troubling and claustrophobic. Striking out alone through the winter city, she finds herself pulled into the ancient hutongs to confront the source of her unease. In a still, silent room in a timeless house, can she find the notes she needs to make sense of all the pain and beauty in her life?

Evocative, magical and endlessly surprising, Ghost Music is a captivating journey through memory, expression and self-discovery towards the shimmer of new beginnings.

©2022 An Yu (P)2022 Penguin Audio City Life Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Urban Women's Fiction World Literature Marriage Piano
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From the beginning chapter I was thrilled with the delight of wonder and magic this book would bring, but it seemed to grow rather strange in a cold and dull way - moments of delight woven in between, but overall inconsistent. The narrator was far too proper English and didn’t reflect the story well.

Enchanted beginning but it fades

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