Pinning her hopes on her prettiest daughter, 16-year-old Aloysia, Caecilia aims for a Swedish baron as suitor (though she keeps a list of backups in a notebook). marrying for love, Caecilia, whose family once had money, is terrified of growing old a pauper. Though the freethinking girls may wonder about the benefits of marrying well vs. Music copyist Fridolin Weber and his socially ambitious wife, Marie Caecilia, have four daughters-bookish and devout Sophie quiet Constanze beautiful, silver-voiced Aloysia and headstrong Josefa-whom they struggle to keep in hats and hose. ) explored the apprenticeship years of a callow Shakespeare, turns her eye to the women in the life of a young Mozart in her fourth graceful and entertaining historical. Former opera singer Cowell, whose previous novel (1997's The Players
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