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also available: Paperback
category: Fiction
published: May 2015
ISBN:9781770864177
publisher: Cormorant Books

River Music

by Mary Soderstrom

tagged: literary, historical
Description

Gloria Murray’s daughter jokes that Gloria would have sold her first born to further her musical career — a reproach closer to the truth than anyone but Gloria suspects.

 

Gloria, born just before the Great Depression, knows from the moment she hears a soaring song played on the piano that she must follow that river of emotion. After an adolescence playing in churches and hotel lobbies, she prepares to study in post- World War II France, when another sort of passion intrudes and, halfway through her year abroad, she finds herself forced into a hard choice that she shares with no one. Her career blossoms, she marries, and has two more children, and her secret seems best forgotten – until, thirty years later, she learns of the murder of a young composer who could have been her son.

 

Set against a backdrop of war, economic changes, and social upheavals, River Music explores the sacrifices that women make to fulfill their destiny, the wildcards of sex and passion, and the complicated relationships between mothers and their children.

About the Author
Mary Soderstrom lives in Montreal and is the author of fourteen other books of fiction and non-fiction. Her most recent work, River Music, was published in 2015.
Editorial Reviews

“A thought-provoking guide to how musical tastes have changed over the decades. Gloria takes us on a journey in pursuit of those elusive elements that make music such an integral part of life.”

— Montreal Review of Books

“Played out against a rich historical backdrop that paints a picture of changing Quebec in deft strokes, it’s a novel that conveys the single-mindedness it takes to master an artistic discipline, and that also admirably nails something much harder to dramatize.”

— Montreal Gazette

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