The Sound Between the Notes
Book Feature - The Sound Between the Notes by Barbara Linn Probst
HBL Note: Did you take piano lessons as a child? I had the most wonderful piano teacher as a kid. She was kind and patient with me. I loved taking piano lessons…I hated practicing the piano at home. It wasn’t nearly as much fun without my piano teacher sitting next to me, encouraging me when I made a mistake, praising me when I did particularly well. She even chastised me for not practicing in the kindest way. She was the first person I thought of when I read about Barbara Linn Probst’s novel, THE SOUND BETWEEN THE NOTES, about a pianist who is given the opportunity to rekindle her career after taking a hiatus to raise her child. But it has been so long since she played, she’s lost her touch (I relate to that so much…not practicing and losing all the progress I’d made with my piano teacher the week before.) Scroll down to read more about this book.
Book Feature - The Sound Between the Notes by Barbara Linn Probst
Book Feature - The Sound Between the Notes by Barbara Linn Probst
From the publisher:
Susannah’s career as a pianist has been on hold for nearly sixteen years, ever since her son was born. An adoptee who’s never forgiven her birth mother for not putting her first, Susannah vowed to put her own child first, no matter what. And she did.
But now, suddenly, she has a chance to vault into that elite tier of “chosen” musicians. There’s just one problem: somewhere along the way, she lost the power and the magic that used to be hers at the keyboard. She needs to get them back. Now.
Her quest—what her husband calls her obsession—turns out to have a cost Susannah couldn’t have anticipated. Even her hand betrays her, as Susannah learns that she has a progressive hereditary disease that’s making her fingers cramp and curl—a curse waiting in her genes, legacy of a birth family that gave her little else. As her now-or-never concert draws near, Susannah is catapulted back to memories she’s never been able to purge—and forward, to choices she never thought she would have to make.
Told through the unique perspective of a musician, The Sound Between the Notes draws the reader deeper and deeper into the question Susannah can no longer silence: Who am I, and where do I belong?
Book Feature - The Sound Between the Notes by Barbara Linn Probst
