About the Author

John Spurling, born in Kenya to English parents, is a playwright, novelist, and critic. In addition to numerous plays, he is also the author of the novels The Ragged End and After Zenda.

Reviews

"...Spurling's book offers many pleasures. It fully inhabits the world of Liszt, and is a tremendous achievement." -Guardian "What is the novelist's dearest dream?...Is it perhaps to be endowed with that magic talent that can weave so potent a spell that the reader is unable to stop turning the pages, such is the desire to know what happens next? John Spurling has that talent." -Spectator "It is not uncommon that successful playwrights...should turn to the novel...but few can have done so as brilliantly and satisfactorily as John Spurling."-Scotsman"