Facing the Music: A Novel
Fans of contemporary British novelists will enjoy this tale of a beautiful young musician who, while on the rebound, marries the headmaster of a boys' prep school and almost immediately finds herself in love with the father of one of his pupils. Sheepshanks (A Price for Everything, LJ 6/1/96) and her husband ran a boys' prep school for many years, and it shows in the way Winsleyhurst School comes to life?staff, students, and parents all ring true. The reader occasionally longs to shake some sense into heroine Flavia Cameron, but the novel is nonetheless compulsively readable and very well written. Highly recommended for popular fiction collections.?Elizabeth Mary Mellett, Brookline P.L., Mass.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.