Marrying Mozart
By (Author) Stephanie Cowell
Penguin Putnam Inc
Penguin USA
28th December 2004
United States
Children
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
368
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 21mm
295g
Amadeus meets Little Women in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award-winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist and their mother secretly draws up a list of prospective suitors in the kitchen, the sisters struggle with their futures, both marital and musical-until twenty-one-year-old Wolfgang Mozart walks into their lives. Bringing eighteenth-century Europe to life with unforgiving winters, yawning princes, scheming parents, and the enduring passions of young talent, Stephanie Cowell's richly textured tale captures a remarkable historical figure-and the four young women who engage his passion, his music, and his heart.
Stephanie Cowell is the author of Nicholas Cooke- Actor, Soldier, Physician, Priest; The Physician of London (American Book Award 1996), and The Players- A Novel of the Young Shakespeare. She is also the author of Marrying Mozart, which was translated into seven languages and has been optioned for a movie. Visit her at stephaniecowell.com andeverydaylivesfrenchimpressionists.blogspot.com.