My book

Aydy’s Fiddle

In 1887, the precocious twelve-year-old daughter of a café manager aspires to be a concert violinist. She inherits her grandfather’s violin and begins to play it with rapid and stunning progress. However, music has the power to draw memories from people and she soon realizes she can see these memories in the people who hear her play.

As she plays over time, her visions become stranger and she learns a disturbing series of family secrets. She must try to make sense of what she sees, reconstruct events from her early childhood, grasp at the barest fragments of memory – and solve a mystery. Is her uncle responsible for the death of her beloved grandfather? She is soon faced with the choice of moving her career forward or finally solving the mysteries contained in the visions.

Through all this, there’s the music – always the music. Such power music has; it wraps itself around you, it transports you. It can only bring about pure magic.