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Pub Date 28 Sep 2025 | Archive Date 27 Oct 2025

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Description

You’ve heard of ‘girl meets boy’? This isn’t that. It’s ‘girl meets horn’.

Cate was a top musician in a leading orchestra—until a disastrous solo humiliated her on the world stage. Traumatised, she abandons her instrument, retrains as a language teacher, reinvents herself online, and travels the world.

Ten years later, after her mother’s death, Cate returns to her bleak Midlands hometown, where she’s drawn into mentoring Sarah, a talented teenage horn player with no professional training. Sarah dreams of making music her career, but her family can’t afford a decent instrument or lessons. She learns by ear, her talent undeniable but her future uncertain.

Cate is the only one who can help.

When a local amateur orchestra announces a concert featuring the piece that once destroyed Cate’s career, Sarah’s big break is at stake. For Cate, helping her succeed could mean redemption—if she can finally face her own past.

You’ve heard of ‘girl meets boy’? This isn’t that. It’s ‘girl meets horn’.

Cate was a top musician in a leading orchestra—until a disastrous solo humiliated her on the world stage. Traumatised, she...


A Note From the Publisher

Caroline Swinburne studied music and joined the BBC, aiming to work in music radio, but somehow became sidetracked by speech feature-making, specialising in stories about the developing world. Following the birth of her two sons, she retrained as a music therapist. Originally a French horn player, she became obsessed with the piano and now runs a successful teaching practice in south-east London, as well as writing music-themed fiction.

Caroline Swinburne studied music and joined the BBC, aiming to work in music radio, but somehow became sidetracked by speech feature-making, specialising in stories about the developing world...


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ISBN 9781835744130
PRICE £4.99 (GBP)
PAGES 272

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