Girl Who Trod On a Loaf

Helle Ten Brix, a Danish composer of operas, dies leaving as part of her will her unfinished opera, "The Girl Who Trod On a Loaf", to Frances Thorn, a young woman whom Helle has befriended. The opera, it transpires, is the key not only to the riddle of Helle, but also to the dilemma of Frances.