The Well-tempered Clavier

Set against the backdrop of the Falklands War, this is the story of a torrid love affair that develops between schoolboy Kim and his 23-year-old female piano teacher, the beguiling but pained India, at the most traditional of institutions, Eton College. 25 years later, Kim looks back on the life-changing experience and sees how enemies, strict constraints, and ultimately his own jealousy destroyed the haven that had been created. On finally uncovering the reason for India’s secret hurt, the novel reaches a destructive finale that still haunts Kim all these years later.