'Under the arrow of Eros I sit down and weep.' If this sentence
hovers close to parody or pastiche, it is also poetic and plangent,
with just a hint of self-mockery, and it perfectly distils the
variegated tone of Seth's novel. An Equal Music is a love story in
which the object of desire is as much the art of music as it is the
elusive Julia. Michael, who tells the story in the present tense,
plays the violin in a string quartet. The life of this group, its
rehearsals, dependencies and tensions, is the quietly flowing
current which provides some sense of fragile continuity to what
might otherwise be too evanescent a novel. For this is a book about
the impermanence of relationships and the nostalgia which governs
so large a part of our existences. Readers expecting to return to
the India of A Suitable Boy will be confounded - this is set mainly
in central London, with Lancashire, Vienna and Venice also
impinging upon the action. Seth's mastery of dialogue and his
gentle nuanced descriptive art are, however, as subtle here as in
anything he has written. This is a loving novel in which
Terpsichore is the prevailing muse, not Eros. Review by ALASTAIR
NIVEN, Director of the British Council (Kirkus UK)
'A masterpiece' Daily Mail 'Will still be read with pleasure and
absorption decades from now' Spectator 'A wonder-work:
irresistible, tense, deeply moving' Sunday Times 'An extraordinary
book' Independent on Sunday A chance sighting on a bus; a letter
which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that
touches the heart of her music . . . AN EQUAL MUSIC is a book about
love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it
is a book about music and how the love of music can run like a
passionate fugue through a life. It is the story of Michael, of
Julia, and of the love that binds them. 'A novel that can stand
being reread and reread, but the first time round is an emotional
cliffhanger ... secure a copy for yourself, settle down, and
prepare for the unforgettable' Sunday Times
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