BLURB: Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the urban estate where he was raised and made a new life for himself amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a local nursing home, where he has forged a close friendship with the home's most ill-tempered resident, Dr. Paulsen. But when he meets and falls in love with Iris Bellwether, a beautiful and enigmatic medical student at King's College, Oscar is drawn into her world of scholarship and privilege, and soon becomes embroiled in the strange machinations of her brilliant but troubled brother, Eden, who believes he can adapt the theories of a forgotten Baroque composer to heal people with music. Eden's self-belief knows no bounds, and as he draws his sister and closed circle of friends into a series of disturbing experiments to prove himself right, Oscar realises the extent of the danger facing them all...
I picked up this book as it was in a display of titles by new authors, and was up for an award of some kind. I read the back and thought it sounded familiar. I had recently read Donna Tartt's The Secret History, and there were similar themes. I instantly liked the characters, The outsider, the close clique. The music described so vividly it made me close my eyes and imagine I was there. Taking me back to my memories of sitting in church feeling not quite whole. Something resonated. Addicted from the start, I knew this was a book that was important and I had picked it at just the right time. Get yourself a copy - now in paperback, and get drawn into the circle.
The Bellwether Revivals
Benjamin Wood
ISBN 9780857206961
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