THE DEVIL’S MUSIC

Book ID/图书代码： 11701208B23844

English Summary/英文概要： It is 1958 and the Sputnik satellite has taken a dog up into space; back on earth, five-year-old Andy has a new sister, Elaine - a baby who, his father insists, is ‘not quite all there’. While his parents argue over whether or not to send Elaine away, Andy sleeps beside her cot each night, keeping guard and watching as his mother - once an ambitious, energetic nurse - twists away into her private, suffocating sadness. Knots keep treasures safe, Andy’s rope-maker grandfather tells him, and so Andy begins to learn: the Carrick Bend, the Midshipman’s Hitch and the Monkey’s Fist. His grandfather recounts stories of the great Harry Houdini and Andy dreams of becoming an escapologist too, practising untying knots and holding his breath underwater in the bath. When a young painter hired to decorate the family’s house coaxes responses from soft, silent Elaine, he seems to call Andy’s mother back from the grief in which she is lost. And then, at The Siding - the old railway carriage that serves as the family’s seaside retreat - Andy is left in charge of his baby sister on a wind-chopped beach, where he discovers that not all treasures can be kept safe for ever. Three decades later, when his father dies and his other sister calls him home, Andrew returns from self-imposed exile to The Siding, the place where his life first unravelled. Looking back on the broken strands of his childhood, he tries, at last, to weave them together, aided by his grandfather’s copy of The Ashley Book of Knots and the arrival of a wild-haired, tango-dancing sculptor - a woman with her own ideas about making peace with the past.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小说《魔鬼的音乐》（The Devil’s Music）“关于家族秘密与背叛，关于责任与自由之间的剑拔弩张，还关于不断跳跃移动的记忆，叙事极美”。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Jane Rusbridge lives on the coast in West Sussex with her husband, a farmer, and three of their five children. She taught at primary and preschool levels before returning to education herself as a mature student to read English at Chichester University, where she went on to gain an MA in Creative Writing. For the past ten years she has worked at Chichester University as an Associate Lecturer in English. THE DEVIL’S MUSIC is her first novel.

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