Tenderwire - Softcover

Kilroy, Claire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015603204X ISBN 13: 9780156032049

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2006

Synopsis

Brilliant, fast-paced, and highly suspenseful, Tenderwire tells the story of a reckless young musician and her obsession with a very old violin.

Eva Tyne leaves her home in Ireland for New York to play in the New Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra. She collapses after her solo debut, checks herself out of the hospital prematurely, and embarks on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. She falls in love with a mysterious man and becomes obsessed with a rare violin of dubious provenance, for which she must pay in cash. But consumed by obsession, her pursuit of the violin becomes a nightmare of paranoia: Haunted by the ghost of her father, racked with jealousy, and unsure whom she can trust, Eva is pitched into a desperate psychological conundrum as her desires threaten to destroy her.

Narrated in Eva's unforgettable and unreliable voice, Tenderwire is a guessing game and a whodunit that surprises at every turn.

About this title

Review:

INTERNATIONAL PRAISE FOR ALL SUMMER
"A thriller, a confession and a love story framed by a meditation on the arts."-THE TIMES (London)

"All Summer is a strangely haunting and compelling novel that heralds an exciting new talent in Irish writing."
-DERMOT BOLGER, THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE (Dublin)

Book Description:

Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy: 'Captivating, it skilfully fuses the literary novel with the thriller.' (Irish Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 015603204X
• ISBN 13: 9780156032049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312