The Piano Woman by Rozzi Bazzani is a dual timeline story, one of my favourite genres. Maddison, a successful novelist living in Melbourne, is surprised to receive a letter from a solicitor in England informing her that she is the last surviving female relative of Lady Rose Hampton of Hebden in Kent, and it has taken many ears to find her. As such, Maddie reads, she has inherited an antique grand piano.
Maddie has been going through a troubling time, having discovered the man she loved had been pretty much a serial betrayer; to make matters worse, she is experiencing writer’s block for the first time, and the deadline for her new book is looming. Maddie has been an orphan since she was eighteen when her mother died, and has only vague memories of her grandmother, Abigail, who had died years before then. She makes a decision to go to Kent to claim her inheritance and, hopefully, learn about her family background.
This is a beautiful story which, as Maddie is finding connections to her English relatives in the present day, switches to the early twentieth century. The main characters are easy to keep track of because of each one’s individuality and it was easy to picture them and become lost in the drama, mystery and romance they were all part of. It is a very different book to the Detective Bec Harpin series, and just as engrossing. I read it in a day because I couldn’t put it down!
Top marks, Rozzi.
Published by S & B Books
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