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What a read Every schoolboys dream comes true in this deftlywrittentreatment of illicit romance. A triumph.Alexander McCall SmithMy ownpiano teacher was called Mr Bagston and frankly I dont think any power onearth could have persuaded us to create a scene of the kind Coles so movinglydescribes.Boris Johnson mayor of London and author of Have I Got Views forYouAn outstanding debut novel. A wonderful story of first love. Few maleauthors can write about romance in a way which appeals to womenbut Coles hasmanaged it quite brilliantly.Sunday Express United KingdomSeventeenyearold Kim is a student at one of Britains most extraordinary institutionsEton Collegecrammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. Hishead is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career until the day hehears his new piano teacher India a beautiful but pained young woman playinga prelude from Bachs WellTempered Clavier. Kims life will never be thesame again. An intensely passionate affair develops between him and his twentythreeyearold teacher and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill offirst love. Twentyfive years on Kim recalls that heady summer and how theirfledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed outfinished off by his enemiesby the constraints of Eton and by his own withering jealousy. Prelude is thebittersweet story of a lifechanging love.William Coles has been ajournalist for eighteen years. He lives in the United Kingdom. «
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