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"Bright and bookish Oscar Lowe lives a quiet life, working at a local nursing home amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge. But everything changes the day he follows the otherworldly sound of an organ into the chapel of King's College. There he meets a beautiful and seductive medical student, Iris Bellwether, and her charismatic and troubled brother Eden -- a musical prodigy who believes he can cure people through his playing. Oscar is seduced by their life of privilege, but when eden convinces Iris and her close-knit circle of friends to participate in a series of disturbing experiments, Oscar fears that it is danger and not healing that awaits them all"--Page 4 of cover.
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Originally published in Great Britain by Simon and Shuster 2012. First published in the United States by Viking Penguin.
"Costa first novel award finalist"--Cover.
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Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the urban estate where he was raised and made a new life for himself amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a local nursing home, where he has forged a close friendship with the home's most ill-tempered resident, Dr. Paulsen. But when he meets and falls in love with Iris Bellwether, a beautiful and enigmatic medical student at King's College, Oscar is drawn into her world of scholarship and privilege, and soon becomes embroiled in the strange machinations of her brilliant but troubled brother, Eden, who believes he can adapt the theories of a forgotten Baroque composer to heal people with music. Eden's self-belief knows no bounds, and as he draws his sister and closed circle of friends into a series of disturbing experiments to prove himself right, Oscar realises the extent of the danger facing them all ...
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