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Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain''s most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano teacher, the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach''s Well-Tempered Clavier. Kim''s life is destined never to be the same again. An intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love. Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy. "The Well-Tempered Clavier" is the bittersweet story of a life-changing love.

The Well-Tempered Clavier

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      Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/04/2015
      ISBN13: 9781785079788, 978-1785079788
      ISBN10: 1785079786

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain''s most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano teacher, the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach''s Well-Tempered Clavier. Kim''s life is destined never to be the same again. An intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love. Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy. "The Well-Tempered Clavier" is the bittersweet story of a life-changing love.

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