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Giant's bread / Mary Westmacott.
By: Westmacott, Mary.
Publisher: Leicester : Thorpe, Ulverscroft, 2020Edition: Large print edition.Description: 468 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444845655; 1444845659.Subject(s): Composers -- Fiction | Mothers and sons -- Fiction | Families -- FictionGenre/Form: Romance fiction. | Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: Vernon Deyre spends his childhood in fear of the grand piano, which seems to him a great and terrible Beast with ivory teeth. In consequence, he grows up regarding music with distaste and distrust. Then, years later, he attends an orchestral concert as a favour to a friend, and is enraptured by the performance. Vernon becomes a sensitive and brilliant composer - quite possibly a genius. But there is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life...| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | St Helens Library Large Print | Available | 38055013142435 |
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Agatha Christie writing as Mary Westmacott.
Vernon Deyre spends his childhood in fear of the grand piano, which seems to him a great and terrible Beast with ivory teeth. In consequence, he grows up regarding music with distaste and distrust. Then, years later, he attends an orchestral concert as a favour to a friend, and is enraptured by the performance. Vernon becomes a sensitive and brilliant composer - quite possibly a genius. But there is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life...
Adult.