Melanie Lowy

Martha's Book of Song Melanie Lowy

Martha Mandel's tale spans the decades from earliest childhood in a Munich about to seethe with National Socialism, to the calm shores of Devon in her eighties, bound by her love of the tunes that never leave her. A free-spirited woman inspired by every kind of music, her story skips the decades. The mere press of a button, however, can bring forth a burst of melody that slides back the years as though they were no more than a flimsy curtain revealing secrets that have either never been previously discovered by Martha's family, or are after all mere fiction taking the reader on a musical carousel of exotic locations, heart-ache but above all enduring love.