Listen With Father: How I Learned to Love Classical Music - Couverture souple

Sanderson, Caroline

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1789652057 ISBN 13 : 9781789652055

Editeur : Unbound, 2025

Synopsis

'Blazes with love' Keggie Carew

'Warm and insightful' Polly Morland

'A love song to classical music' Rachel Joyce

Listen with Father is a book about the transformative power of listening, and about how we remember those we have loved and lost.

At four years old, Caroline Sanderson fell in love with the music of Mozart after listening to it with her father. At eight, she fell even harder for the songs of David Bowie. Her dad made many gentle attempts to persuade her back to his world of classical music, but it wasn’t until after he died that she returned to it, in memory of him.

In a beguiling blend of memoir and biography, we follow Sanderson as she set out to listen, with great care and attention, to the music her dad loved, to work out why he so appreciated it and whether she could too. From hearing Mozart recitals in Salzburg to visiting Sibelius’s house near Helsinki and playing Robert Schumann at home on the piano, this is a beautifully touching and absorbing story of a beloved father, told through the classical music he cherished.

'A tender meditation on listening – to music, to memory and to the conversations we wish we’d had' Freya Bromley, author of The Tidal Year

'Like the best classical music, it ignites our imagination, and is a deeply human adventure in music's power to affect our emotional lives' Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Caroline Sanderson is a writer and books journalist. She is Associate Editor of The Bookseller for which she has compiled the monthly New Titles preview of forthcoming non-fiction since 2000. She has judged many book prizes and in 2022 was Chair of Judges for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Caroline is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, and most recently served as Writer in Residence at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. Programme Director of Stroud Book Festival, Caroline is herself the author of six non-fiction books, including biographies of Jane Austen and the singer, Adele. Her memoir Listen With Father: How I Learned to Love Classical Music will be published by Unbound in July 2025.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Unbound
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789652057
• ISBN 13: 9781789652055
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible