The Last Conductor: A Novel of Love, Loss, and Second Chances

She built her career on perfect distance. Then she met the one man she couldn't review from far enough away. Milan's most feared music critic, Elena Vasari, has spent seven years observing life rather than living it - precise, controlled, untouchable. When Cuban-Spanish conductor Rafael Montes arrives at La Scala with a debut that stops the city in its tracks, Elena delivers her verdict: extraordinary talent. Dangerously unfinished. Then his brother slips her an invitation she should refuse. >As the January opening night approaches, Elena uncovers a thirty-year secret buried beneath Milan's gilded cultural world - and finds herself confronting the question she has avoided for seven years: what do you do when the thing you walked away from is still playing? The Last Conductor is a novel about obsession, loss, and the precise moment a life changes key. >About this book: Literary fiction - Set in Milan, Italy - Themes of music, obsession, secrets, and second chances.

Pagina's: 330, Paperback, Independently published