The Music Room

By: William Fiennes

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Paperback | 1 May 2010 | Edition Number 1

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âFiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memoryâ Sunday Telegraph

William Fiennesâ childhood was one of imagination and curiosity, bounded only by the horizon he saw from the roof-tiles of his ancient family home. His older brother Richard, known for his towering presence, his inventiveness, his great passion for Leeds United, and his suffering due to severe epilepsy, was an adored and charismatic figure in his life.

Years later, eager to understand his brotherâs mind as fully as the ancient trees and secret haunts of his own journey towards adulthood, William Fiennes has written a profoundly moving account of his home, his familyâs care, and above all, of Richard. The Music Room is a luminous testament to the miracle of consciousness and to the permanence of love.

âOn putting the book down I felt as if I had been hypnotised. It held me entranced, afraid and awed. All human grief and glory shimmers off the pageâ Libby Purves, The Times

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The Music Room has an elegiac feel, not least -because Mr. Fiennes writes about his family with such care and dignity. His descriptions of Richard's -outbursts and seizures have the brutality of truth -without any of the modern memoirist's tendency to sensationalize. We are brought deep into the castle that was a family's home, yet what we learn still has an air about it of privacy and restraint. -- Meghan Cox Gurdon

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