Music & Silence: Rose Tremain

Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, Music & Silence is a story of love and divided loyalties set in seventeenth century Denmark

`The best thing from Denmark since Hamlet.` John Julius Norwich

In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV`s Royal Orchestra. From the moment when he realises that the musicians perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, Peter Claire understands that he`s come to a place where the opposing states of light and dark, good and evil, are waging war to the death.

Designated the King`s `Angel` because of his good looks, he finds himself falling in love with the young woman who is the companion of the King`s adulterous and estranged wife, Kirsten. With his loyalties fatally divided between duty and passion, how can Peter Claire find the path that will realise his hopes and save his soul?

`The best historical novelist of her generation. She evokes the past with sensuality, wit and superb sleights of hand... The plot is ingenious... an unforgettable tapestry of Eros and art.` A. N. Wilson