Maurice Guest comes to Leipzig in the 1890s to study piano at the conservatory, full of ambition. Among the students of many nations he meets Louise Dufrayer, a beautiful and notorious Australian, and his passion for her slowly overwhelms his music, his friendships and his judgement, in a city of concerts, lodgings, cafés and frozen winter rivers.
The first novel of the Australian writer behind The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, an intense study of love and art. Download the free EPUB.