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Riveting and revelatory.' Philip Pullman
Wonderfully vivid and touching.' Literary Review
Warm, wise and unflinching.' Sunday Times
Witty and heartfelt.' Financial Times
Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards.
Enough recounts his unconventional coming-of-age story, from his beginnings in an unmusical home in Cheshire to the main stage of the Carnegie Hall in New York, aged just twenty-one.
Hough writes like a dream, with an almost Alan Bennett-like eye and ear for the sights and sounds of childhood.' Dan Cairns, Sunday Times
A memoir that is by turn audacious, harrowing, joyous, moving and funny . . . Hough [has a] brilliant ear for language, for rhythm, for silence.' Harriet Smith, Gramophone
An endearingly humorous, entrancingly lyrical writer.' Peter Conrad, Observer
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