Lessons in Harmony
$31.45
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
17 November 2026
Summary
The year is 1907, and Maurice Ravel is one of the most admired young composers in France. In Belle Epoque Paris, he cuts a charismatic, dandyish figure, whose technically flawless music hides a deep emotional core, and whose unpredictable talent is as hard to pin down as his mysterious personal life.
When Ravel’s devoted acolyte Mylo encourages him to take on a new pupil—a rising British composer called Ralph Vaughan Williams—an unlikely cross-channel friendship starts to blossom. An …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241837740 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024183774X |
| Author: | Jonathan Coe |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 17 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 135mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
A new Jonathan Coe is always a treat * THE TIMES *
My comfort read: anything by Jonathan Coe * BOB MORTIMER *
Probably the best English novelist of his generation’ * NICK HORNBY *
Please God… if there is a next life, let me write as well as Jonathan Coe * ANTHONY BOURDAIN *
A novelist who gains in range and reputation with every book * PAT BARKER *
Coe’s light, funny writing makes you feel better * Evening Standard *
Lessons In Harmony, the story of the bond between two giants of twentieth century music, is as witty, lapidary and elegant as a Ravel miniature and as rich and deep as Vaughan Williams at his most lyrical. With his love of music, European culture and the foibles of Britishness, Jonathan Coe is uniquely equipped to craft this story of male friendship, art, love and nationhood. * STUART MACONIE *
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence and Lessons in Harmony.
He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Europeen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Medicis Etranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages.
Jonathan Coe lives in London.
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