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 The Speech of Angels
Jyothi is a child of the streets, with a faint memory of past happiness: green hills at dawn, a boy's clear and candid gaze, a high light room flooded with music. After the devastating death of her mother a charitable Western couple whisks her away from Bombay’s chaos, danger, and filth. She is given a comfortable home, a first-class education - and a precious half-violin.
She finds herself an outsider locked up in a lonely world of her own, unable to communicate and ostracized by others. The discovery of her rare musical gift changes everything. Words may never be easy for Jyothi, but music flows from her, exquisite music, music of the soul. The world listens: and the rootless waif Jyothi becomes the international superstar, Jade.
Fame, it seems, can solve all of her problems. She can use her virtuosity to win the applause of others, stardom to feed her faltering ego, Bach to win the heart of the man she wants. Yet all this leaves
her unfulfilled.
She must learn that music cannot be a servant; that she must give every bit of herself to the sheer joy and beauty of playing. She must follow it back to her roots.
Only then she will find the love and happiness she longs for, become the musician she was born to be: when music becomes "the Speech of Angels."
Donald Mitchell is one of Amazon.com’s top ten reviewers. Read his review of The Speech of Angels here.
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Of Marriageable Age was Sharon's first novel. When she wrote it she was living in an ancient farmhouse: very pretty to look at but lacking central heating. Her computer stood in a corner of the bedroom, which was unheated and freezing cold in winter. But... writing kept her warm. [read more] [buy the book
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Sharon on Peacocks Dancing:
When I started writing this story I did not plan to enter Bombay’s notorious Red Light District. I certainly did not plan to write a book about child prostitution... [read more] [buy the book]
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