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**SOLDIER SAILOR - THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KILROY - IS AVAILABLE NOW**

''Captivating'' Irish Times
''Revealing and elegant'' Financial Times
''Masterful.'' Sunday Tribune

Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. Leaving her steady partner, she quickly falls in love with a mysterious man, and shortly thereafter comes across a rare violin of dubious provenance, for which she must raise the required payment in cash in less than a week. But, haunted by the ghost of her father, racked with jealousy, and unsure whom she can trust around her, Eva soon finds herself playing a desperate psychological game as her desires threaten to destroy her.

Narrated in Eva''s unforgettable voice - at once passionate and unreliable - Tenderwire is a nove

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"'This highly strung escapade is kept aloft by Kilroy's pitch-perfect prose.' Independent"

Tenderwire

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 5 April 2007
      ISBN-13 9780571229758
      978-0571229758
      ISBN-10 0571229751
      Also in:
      Crime & Thrillers

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      **SOLDIER SAILOR - THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KILROY - IS AVAILABLE NOW**

      ''Captivating'' Irish Times
      ''Revealing and elegant'' Financial Times
      ''Masterful.'' Sunday Tribune

      Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. Leaving her steady partner, she quickly falls in love with a mysterious man, and shortly thereafter comes across a rare violin of dubious provenance, for which she must raise the required payment in cash in less than a week. But, haunted by the ghost of her father, racked with jealousy, and unsure whom she can trust around her, Eva soon finds herself playing a desperate psychological game as her desires threaten to destroy her.

      Narrated in Eva''s unforgettable voice - at once passionate and unreliable - Tenderwire is a nove

      Trade Review
      "'This highly strung escapade is kept aloft by Kilroy's pitch-perfect prose.' Independent"

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