Description
Diana owns a bookshop, is thirty-something and single again after a long relationship. She is hurt, angry lonely - highly opinionated - but fighting back.The Brahms Requiem was once her favourite piece of music. Now she cannot listen to it without it stirring painful memories of her old love. Sie is determined to supplant the old memories with something new; she is determined to 'get back Brahms'.
Roberta Topp, grande dame of commercial literature has leased part of Hassocks Hall, a Robert Adam masterpiece, from its declining aristocratic owners, and intends to open the Academy of Forward Fiction.
This is expected to do for literature what the Prince of Wales has done for architecture: free it from modernist taint.
Diana joins the Hassocks Hall team, and in her quest for a memory to superimpose on the past considers the young gardener Dave as a possibility. But Roberta has selected Dave for an altogether different role and Diana becomes part of the deal...
ISBN:9780571192274
