The problem with this book, although a very enjoyable read, is that a month after reading it, I couldn’t even remember the name of the heroine (Nicola, as it turns out) or the hero (Julian). The character I did remember is the wonderfully vivacious and temperamental operatic primadonna aunt, Gina Torelli, one of the best-drawn […]

“That’s the strangest and most macabre thing…. It started—oh, months ago, when I adjudicated at a big music exam… Among the candidates was a girl…. her technique was quite outstanding, but beyond that there was nothing.”

A wonderful read, but hugely disappointing both as a romance and as a rags-to-riches/stardom story, in this second instalment of Mary Burchell’s Warrender series, set in the world of opera.

A devastatingly arrogant and attractive conductor falls in love with his student in the first instalment in Mary Burchell’s opera-themed Warrender series.