Prelude

✍ Scribed by Coles, William

• Book ID: 107721427
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 503 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781569475744

✦ Synopsis

"What a read! Every schoolboy's dream comes true in this deftly-written treatment of illicit romance. A triumph."--Alexander McCall Smith

"My own piano teacher was called Mr Bagston and frankly I don't think any power on earth could have persuaded us to create a scene of the kind Coles so movingly describes."--Boris Johnson, mayor of London and author of Have I Got Views for You

"An outstanding debut novel. A wonderful story of first love. Few male authors can write about romance in a way which appeals to women--but Coles has managed it quite brilliantly."--Sunday Express (United Kingdom)

Seventeen-year-old Kim is a student 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, India, a beautiful but pained young woman, playing a prelude from Bach's...