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The Moderate Soprano

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Moderate Soprano

By David Hare

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About the book

I want to give my country a model of perfection. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it.A man of great passions, John Christie wooed his opera singer wife with a determination befitting a man who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos. Now, in 1934, this Etonian science teacher's admiration for the works of Wagner has led him to embark on the construction of an opera house on his Sussex estate. Then, by chance, he hears word of a group of refugees from Nazi Germany who may perh...Show more

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9780571348343

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published year

2018

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The Moderate Soprano

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