title: The Gustav Sonata: A Novel
author:  Rose Tremain 
description: Tremain is one of those few writers you trust completely when she goes to any unfamiliar territory, historical or emotional Tremain knows how to show all the terrible bleak things that can happen between mothers and sons This most unconventional book offers no easy answer, which makes it as disturbing and electric as any high-wire act.<br /> - <strong><em>The New York Times Book Review</em></strong><br /><br />[Tremains] expertise is evident in its gradual layering of personal history and its subtle mingling of lights and darks.<br /> - <strong><em>Wall Street Journal</em></strong><br /><br /><em>The Gustav Sonata</em> is beautifully rendered, and magnificent in its scope. It glows with mastery.<br /> - <strong>Ian McEwan</strong><br /><br /><em>The Gustav Sonata</em> is a work of extreme and painful beauty, the story of one profound love amid many failed relationships, and of the conflict between passion and self-control. Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists, and deserves, with this brilliant novel, to reach a wide new audience.<br /> - <strong>Salman Rushdie</strong><br /><br />[F]rom this tangled mess of human relations, Tremain draws a conclusion that is simultaneously straightforward and sweetly transformative. Like so much else in this compassionate and musical novel, it hits a perfectnote.<br /> - <strong><em>The Telegraph</em></strong><br /><br />This is a perfect novel about lifes imperfectionWhat Rose Tremain understands, above all, is the tragedy of temperament and the way it plays havoc with choice Tremain is anything but an indulgent writer and is, here, writing at the height of her inimitable powers.<br /> - <strong><em>The Guardian</em></strong>
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  #  A Sonata for the Fiery Lady
  
  
  
  
  
  A REGENCY ROMANCE NOVEL
  
  
  
  
  
  HENRIETTA HARDING
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
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