The Well-Tempered Clavier

The Well-Tempered Clavier Based on a True Story

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Publisher's Synopsis

'Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like this?'

-Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal


'This is a charming and uplifting book' 

-Piers Morgan 



Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter 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, the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Kim's life is destined never to be the same again. 


An intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love. Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy.


"The Well-Tempered Clavier" is the bittersweet story of a life-changing love.

Book information

ISBN: 9780955103278
Publisher: Legend Press
Imprint: Legend Press
Pub date:
Edition: Paperback original
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 256g
Height: 200mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 18mm