The Piano (CH) (Charnwood Library)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY. In her award-winning film THE PIANO, Jane Campion told a love story that transfixed millions the world over. Although she had already spent ten years writing and making the film, Campion continued to be haunted by her characters and decided to tell the whole story....Ada, together with her nine-year old illegitimate daughter, Flora, and her piano, arrive in nineteenth-century New Zealand for a marriage Ada's father has arranged. Ada has not spoken since she was six years old, but she sees her piano as her own special voice. When she learns that her husband has given the piano to the illiterate Baines in exchange for some land, she and Baines strike a bargain which draws all three into a complex emotional and sexual bond.