Lessons in Harmony (Signed First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2026
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- Title
- Lessons in Harmony (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- Coe, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Signed
- signed by author or artist
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241796660
- ISBN 13
- 9780241796665
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Printing
- 1st printing
- Item weight
- 384 grams
A STUNNING, HEARTFELT NEW NOVEL ABOUT A DECADES-LONG FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN TWO COMPOSERS FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE, BOURNVILLE AND MIDDLE ENGLAND
The 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.
When 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. An aristocratic Englishman and collector of folk songs, Vaughan Williams appears to have nothing in common with his teacher except that, somehow, each of them seems to represent an archetype of his own country.
But 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?
LESSONS 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.
'A new Jonathan Coe is always a treat' The Times
'My comfort read: anything by Jonathan Coe' Bob Mortimer
'Probably the best English novelist of his generation' Nick Hornby
'Please God... if there is a next life, let me write as well as Jonathan Coe' Anthony Bourdain
‘A novelist who gains in range and reputation with every book’ Pat Barker
'Lessons In Harmony, the story of the bond between two giants of twentieth century music, is as witty, lapidary and elegant as a Ravel miniature and as rich and deep as Vaughan Williams at his most lyrical. With his love of music, European culture and the foibles of Britishness, Jonathan Coe is uniquely equipped to craft this story of male friendship, art, love and nationhood.' Stuart Maconie
'I was completely convinced and engrossed by the fictional reconstruction of the friendship between those two very different composers. The writing has all the subtlety and wit that is customary for Jonathan Coe, but rare, and there is so much wisdom in it - about the sacrifices demanded of the friends and partners in the orbit of a musical genius, about rivalry, disappointment, and the convulsions of world politics.' Clare Chambers
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