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The lost love song : a novel

by Darke, Minnie,

Format: Print Book 2020
Availability: Available at 10 Libraries 10 of 10 copies

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Summary
Behind every great love song is a great love story, from the author of Star-Crossed

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * "A tender tribute to the healing powers of love and music . . . Readers will be wowed."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Concert pianist Diana is finally ready to marry her longtime fiance, Arie; she's even composing a beautiful love song for him, and finishes it while on tour. Before she can play it for him, though, tragedy strikes--and Diana is lost to Arie forever.

But her song might not be.

In Australia, the world has gone quiet for Arie and he lives his life accordingly, struggling to cope with his loss. In Scotland, a woman named Evie is taking stock of her life after the end of another lackluster almost-relationship. Years of wandering the globe and failing to publish her poetry have taken their toll, and she might finally be ready to find what her travels have never been able to give her: a real home. And through a quirk of fate or circumstance, Diana's song is passed from musician to musician. By winding its way around the world, it just might bring these two lost souls together.

With heart-wrenching emotion, The Last Love Song explores what it means to be lost, what it means to be found, and the power of music to bring people together.
Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "Music is the language of love in Darke's latest (after Star-Crossed, 2019). Piano phenom Diana Clare always found it easiest to express her emotions through music. Before her life is cut tragically short, she plays a love song for her fiancé Arie, not knowing that it will be the only time she'll play it for him. The song travels with Diana to Singapore, where she leaves her songbook on a hotel piano. Picked up by another traveler, the book travels to Scotland, where poet Evie Greenlees hears the song from it in a train station. Evie takes what she remembers of the song and her wanderlust back to Australia, where she's overheard playing it by her neighbor…Arie. As the song brings Arie and Evie closer, it will bring others across the world together when "I love you" is hard to say. Written with engaging prose and charming characters, The Lost Love Song is a sweet romance that shows the power of music during times of both immense joy and sadness."
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Publisher's Weekly Review: "With this sweeping romance, Darke (Star-Crossed) spins a tender tribute to the healing powers of love and music. For seven years, gentle Australian computer whiz Arie Johnson and fiery concert pianist and composer Diana Clare have been each other's "Amen." While away on a concert tour, Diana finally finds the perfect closing sequence to a love song she's been writing when she decides to accept Arie's marriage proposal--only to die in a plane crash on her way back to Australia. Darke traces Diana's final song as it makes its way around the world helping strangers heal their heartaches over the next two years: businessman and pianist Bene Romero heard Diana play just before she died and takes the melody home to London, where he plays it to his fractious teenager, Beatrix. Beatrix then performs it with her first love, Felix Carter, in an Edinburgh train station. After hearing them in passing, Tasmanian poet Evie Greenlees brings the song full circle when she returns to Australia and meets the still grieving Arie. Darke's accomplished plotting, colorful settings, and keen insights into love and loss make for an outstanding romantic panorama. Readers will be wowed. Agent: Dan Lazar, Writer's House. (Oct.)"
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Additional Information
Subjects Pianists -- Fiction.
Women composers -- Fiction.
Love songs -- Fiction.
Women poets -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
Scotland -- Fiction.
Romance fiction.
Publisher New York :Ballantine Books,2020
Language English
Notes Includes questions and topics for discussion and "The music behind The lost love song".
Description 369 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN 9780593160336
0593160339
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