Partita

FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR

'Immaculate' RACHEL JOYCE
'A Tess of the d'Urbervilles for the 21st century' THE TIMES
'I couldn't put it down' BONNIE GARMUS

You've taken Demon to your hearts, prepare for another 'emotionally raw, riotously entertaining' read as you meet Livia.

A song without any answer in it? That's the sound of waiting.

Livia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death, and the stifling silence of the family farm, eleven-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her only solace: music, an escape in the quiet rapture piano practice brings. The promise of a new life her talent offers, intoxicating.

So when Livia starts her college music scholarship it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she struggles to fit in with more urbane classmates, she glimpses the possibilities of a life beyond the farm and her parents.

Then one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and crocuses and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, muscles you wouldn't miss in the rear view:

'Who is that man?'

It is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked.

From one of the greatest writers alive comes Livia's story, Partita, both a coming-of-age narrative and an examination of midlife hopes and regrets, a novel as simple as love and longing, as touching, complex and finely tuned as the music it celebrates.


⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A virtuoso rendition worthy of a standing ovation. Bravo, Barbara'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'My goodness Kingsolver can write '
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This is one of those books that makes me want to close the cover and immediately start over '
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Compelling, emotionally rich, and impossible to stop reading'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This is pitch-perfect'