The award winning woman’s fiction author Hannah Fielding returns with
CONCERTO Hannah Fielding
Paperback published 6th June 2019 by London Wall Publishers.
A sun-drenched classic romance set between the Cote d Azur and Italy’s Lake Como
On a bright morning in Nice, eighteen year old aspiring opera singer, Catriona de Vere finds the two storey reddish pink bricked house Les Platanes has been sold. Its new occupant and her never neighbour is none other than the celebrated concert pianist, handsome and rude Umberto Roland Monteverdi.
Fascinated by the hypnotizing piano melodies filtering through her bedroom windows night after night, Catriona cannot hide her growing attraction to her neighbour until his music seduces her into his bed, leaving a trail of unexpected consequences and the sting of betrayal.
Ten years later, having put Umberto out of her mind, Catriona, now a respected musical therapist, is visited by opera diva Calandra, Umberto’s mother, with a dying request to help recover her son’s musical gift after a car accident robbed him of his sight.
Catriona arrives at Umberto’s Palladian mansion on the glittering shores of Lake Como to find him resistant to her every effort. Caught up in the tempestuous intrigues at her client’s estate, Catriona discovers her feelings towards the blind musician are still as strong as ever. Harbouring secrets of her own can Catriona share what she has hidden from Umberto for the last decade and will she ever be able to break through the darkness that engulfs Umberto?
A sensual tale of romance and nostalgia, Concerto illustrates the pain of lost love and the heroine determined to put things right.
MY REVIEW
I felt like I was at the opera from the comfort of my sofa, while reading this beautiful story.
Catriona Drouot runs a psychology practice, one of the best in Nice. Catriona specialized in a variety of psychological disciplines, it was music therapy that was close to heart as ten years before she had an ambition to become an International opera singer.
I really liked the theme Catronia having a business in music therapy, I thought that this was a wonderful idea, so refreshing.
When diva Calandra Rolando Monteverdi visited Catriona’s clinic it wasn’t to be seen as a patient, but to persuade Catriona, to move to Torno to save her son Umberto Rolando Monteverdi who is the greatest concert pianist composer, who became blind four years ago.
I do love a diva who demands that you must do what she says.
How can Catriona move to Torno to help Umberto, as she has a clinic to run and family?
But diva Calandra knows that there was history ten years ago with Catriona and Umberto.
I loved reading about Catriona and Umberto. I also loved reading about diva Calandra, I could just picture her.
This is one of the most beautiful romantic storylines that I have read in quite some time.
I wanted to read Concerto as I read and enjoyed Masquerade.
About author Hannah Fielding
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Hannah Fielding is an incurable romantic. The seeds for her writing career were sown in early childhood, spent in Egypt, when she came to an agreement with her governess Zula: for each fairy story Zula told, Hannah would invent and relate one of her own. Years later – following a degree in French literature, several years of travelling in Europe, falling in love with an Englishman, the arrival of two beautiful children and a career in property development – Hannah decided after so many years of yearning to write that the time was now. Today, she lives the dream: writing full time at her homes in Kent, England, and the South of France, where she dreams up romances overlooking breath-taking views of the Mediterranean.
Hannah has published five novels: Burning Embers, ‘romance like Hollywood used to make’, set in Kenya; the award-winning Echoes of Love, ‘an epic love story that is beautifully told’ set in Italy; and the Andalucian Nights trilogy (Indiscretion, Masquerade and Legacy), set in sultry Spain.
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