Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. She was educated at Agnes’s Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which for centuries has offered its young wards a grounding in the gift – an inherited ability to tune into the voices and sounds of the past. When she dies, Selda’s gift passes down to her grandson Wolf, who must make sense of her legacy, and learn to live with the newly unleashed voices in his head. Ambitious and exhilarating, The Variations is a novel of startling originality about music and the difficulty – or impossibility – of living with the past.
- ISBN13 9781804270981
- Publish Date 7 September 2023
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Edition Signed Edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 464
- Language English