Livia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death, her only solace is music: an escape in the quiet rapture piano practice brings.
When Livia starts her college music scholarship it feels as if a new life might begin. Then one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow.
‘Who is that man?’ It is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked. A coming-of-age narrative and an examination of midlife hopes and regrets, Partita is a novel as complex and finely tuned as the music it celebrates.



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