Author(s): Patrick Langley

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Bold and immersive, The Variations is a novel of startling originality about music and the difficulty - or impossibility - of living with the past.

MATILDA BOOKSHOP REVIEW

I have either adored or been challenged by every Fitzcarraldo Edition title I have read. The Variations holds me absolutely spellbound! Through the strange life of Selda Heddle (reclusive musician, raised at Agnes's Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children) and her equally brilliant (or perhaps cursed) descendant, themes of music, legacy and history are studied from unexpected angles. Emilie