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The Piano Teacher

by Lynn York · 2004

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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.

Themes
familyfamilyMore like thisLess of thismusicmusicMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1970s1970sMore like thisLess of thisNorth CarolinaNorth CarolinaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 288 pages

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