{"product_id":"lessons-in-harmony","title":"Lessons in Harmony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE AWARD-WINNING, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JONATHAN COE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year is 1907 and Maurice Ravel is one of the most admired young composers in France. In Belle Epoque Paris he cuts a charismatic, dandyish figure, whose technically flawless music hides a deep emotional core, and whose unpredictable talent is as hard to pin down as his mysterious personal life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Ravel’s devoted acolyte Mylo encourages him to take on a new pupil – a rising British composer called Ralph Vaughan Williams – an unlikely cross-channel friendship starts to blossom. The two men could hardly be more different. Ralph is down-to-earth, married, and currently engaged in a long-term project of collecting forgotten British folk songs – a musical form in which Ravel has no interest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll they truly have in common is that in clear but indefinable ways, each of them seems an archetypal representative of his own country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut as the shadow of war approaches, their friendship becomes entwined with Mylo’s own tragic story. The two friends must pursue their vocation through one of the most turbulent but creative periods in history. Will their differing senses of national identity – one ‘typically French’, the other ‘so British’ – liberate or constrain them?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLESSONS IN HARMONY is a stunning novel about the power of music to create beauty, to freeze time, and, at its greatest, to express the personality not just of its composer, but of an entire nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A new Jonathan Coe is always a treat' The Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'My comfort read: anything by Jonathan Coe' Bob Mortimer \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57322819977560,"sku":"9780241796665","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241796665_91bc3a94-ac56-48bb-912e-9e665b875365.jpg?v=1780120856","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lessons-in-harmony","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}