Rocking Amadeus
by Clare Alexandra Metcalf
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Pub Date Oct 17 2021 | Archive Date Feb 16 2022
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Description
Society is bound together by structure and accepted behaviour, but every now. and again, perhaps once in a lifetime, some dramatic, change occurs which disrupts the gentle ebb and flow, like a great tidal wave.
A young American heiress follows-in the footsteps of her Aunt to find out more about her European heritage and indulge her love of opera which her Aunt too shared. She arrives in Vienna just as the tidal wave of change driven by the internet is hitting the beach and becomes mixed up with local sentiment about loss of tradition, falls in love and finds out her Aunt's secrets hidden at a tennis club.
Despite dramatic shifts in lifestyle basic human needs remain the same and must be protected. Privacy is the key and something which we hold dear to us as the founding stone of relationships and intimacy.
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9798499308998 |
| PRICE | $3.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Donna R, Reviewer
First I need to thank Clare for helping when I had trouble with my download. Thank you so much.
This is a book about life and change and following family traditions, etc. I enjoyed the past and the present, the characters Christian and Issie from the present and Walter and Emilie from the past. The way their stories entwine and how the lives of the past can have an affect on how you live your life today.
This book is full of intrigue with stories of family, the Opera, Vienna (and all its beauty) and of course, what is a good book without its secrets.
A great book with just the right length to keep you interested but not overly long so you don't get bored or lost.
A great way to discover a new author.
Robin P, Reviewer
Clare Alexandra Metcalf's novel is more than just a love letter to the Vienna Opera House, it broods with subtle undertones of obsessive love, paranoia and fear of the unknown. It evokes with an almost macabre unease the time and place, just before the coming down of the Berlin Wall, when Vienna was in dangerous proximity of the Eastern Bloc and its dark secrets. The narrator never quite tells one everything. Perhaps the truth is just too dangerous, even now, years later?
The writing is elegant and refined, poignant and compelling, and pitch perfect in tone.
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