The Piano Teacher

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Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, is a town of only 2,500 inhabitants with a 1950s mindset doing its best to cope with the social upheavals of the 1970s. Miss Wilma, a widowed music teacher and organist, suddenly finds her quiet and long-empty house full of people - and trouble, including a broken-hearted pregnant daughter, a clueless son-in-law, a confused granddaughter and eventually her daughter's lover. In two unsettling and chaotic days Miss Wilma finds herself making breakfast for a murder suspect, hiding erotic photographic evidence in her organ bench, going out on her first date in twenty years and even solving a crime. With fantastically strong characterisation and warm and engaging writing, THE PIANO TEACHER is an utterly delicious read for women of all ages.

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A pure delight, likeable characters, an intriguing plot and lots going on. Highy rated - Bookseller

Author Bio

Lynn York was born in North Carolina in 1957. She grew up in foothills of the Blue Ridge in Pilot Mountain, NC, moving to High Point, NC, just in time for a high school career as a notorious journalist and marching band member. She was educated at Duke University where she earned an undergraduate degree in English and French.

She was employed briefly as a textbook sales representative before seeking refuge at the University of Texas at Austin where she received a graduate business degree and, for good measure, a Master's degree in communications policy. She lived in Washington, DC, working in the international telecommunications industry until small children and the promise of decent vegetables and a yard with grass brought her back to North Carolina in 1995. She lives now in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.