The story of love lost, and love found, and the enduring passion for music that fuels it. Michael Holme plays in a quartet, his existence in London is quiet, half-hearted even, until one day while sitting in a bus his world is shaken by a glimpse of the past. What follows is a re-kindled love affair with, of course, a few complications. Can the past be recaptured?
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Bookworm (January 2002) I would give it a rating "good enough to finish" just to see how far Mr.Seth would go with Michael's obsessive love of Julia. I think he has overplayed the love affair in the book with melodrama and one does not end up feeling for the characters in the book. But I would say he's done a good job of familiarising a non musical person with musical terminologies. Apart from that this book is a "good miss".

Sharon (October 2001) This book was somewhat disappointing to me. I think it was meant to be about musicians and their love for music as much as the love affair between Michael and Julia. Most of the main characters came across to me as self absorbed, eccentric and snobbish, particularly the members of the Maggiore quartet. If this book is meant to enlighten us to the life of a musician, it did not do that for me. Michael and Julia's original breakup didn't make any sense to me, and subsequently Michael's feelings for Julia seemed exaggerated. What should have been a poignant and touching love story instead seemed kind of flat and superficial.