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‘Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is a marvel’ KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE_________________________________________Anna Maria may have no name, no fortune, no family. But she has her ambition, and her talent.Her best hope lies in her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi. Soon she is his star pupil.But as Anna Maria’s star rises, not everyone is happy. Because Anna Maria’s shining light is threatening to eclipse that of her mentor?She will leave her mark, whatever it takes. And her story will be heard._________________________________________’Had me spellbound from start to finish’ EMMA STONEX‘A story of musical rivalry which will completely capture your imagination’ ELODIE HARPER‘I was swept away by this searing portrait of ambition and betrayal’ ELIZABETH MACNEAL‘An immersive, impassioned tale full of colour and sound’ OBSERVER‘A fascinating story of music, ambition, and womanhood in eighteenth-century Venice’ CHARMAINE WILKERSON‘Viscerally transports you to eighteenth-century Venice and revives the lost story of a phenomenal woman’ MARIE CLAIRE**An Observer Debut Novelist of 2024**