Unfinished Score

As she prepares dinner for her husband andtheir extended family, Suzanne hears on the radiothat a jetliner has crashed and her lover is dead.Alex Elling was a renowned orchestra conductor.Suzanne is a concert violist, long unsatisfied withher marriage to a composer whose music turnsemotion into thought. Now, more alone thanshes ever been, she must grieve secretly. But ascomplex as that effort is, it pales with the arrival ofAlexs widow, who blackmails her into completingthe score for Alexs unfinished viola concerto.As Suzanne struggles to keep her double life asecret from her husband, from her best friend,and from the other members of her quartet, sheis consumed by memories of a rich love affairsaturated with music. Increasingly manipulated byher lovers widow and tormented by the concertosmany layers, Suzanne realizes she may loseeverything shes spent her life working for.A story of love, loss, sex, class, and betrayal,this psychologically compelling novel exploresthe ways that artists lives and work interact, thenature of relationships among women as friendsand competitors, and what it means to make a lifeof art.