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- Hardcover 592 pages (February 2005)
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- ISBN: 034082851X
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Swan Music
I love writing books that have a connection with one another,
because of the opportunity it provides to play with different perspectives.
I liked the idea of a series of novels each of which would have
at its centre the same powerful and mysterious figure, who influences
everything that happens – in this case from beyond the grave.
In ‘Swan Music’ John Ashe is no more than a figure
in a portrait, whose sinister psychological legacy is felt by the
story’s young anti-heroine, Api, and by everyone with whom
she comes into contact. But (not surprisingly) this is also a story
about love – romantic, married, and fiercely, dangerously
obsessive. Swans appear on the cover, in the title and in the narrative,
because they are long-lived, devotedly monogamous, and sing, so
legend has it, only when they die…
But this is only a romantic novel in the very broadest sense. It’s
also dark and disturbing and will, I hope, haunt you as much as
it still haunts me.
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