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Score
Paperback Edition: 1/2013
A grand piano crashes off a crane that’s lifting it into a block of council flats.
Rebuilding it is impossible. But for Stefan, piano restorer and illegal immigrant, it’s the only way out of a heap of trouble. And for better or worse, a misfit bunch
of tenants weighs in to help him. Everything depends on the wrecked piano and whether they can pull off its restoration.
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The Score is about messy lives, shaky pasts and even shakier futures. Adrienne Jansen’s ninth book is a warm and poignant novel that keeps a sharp observer’s eye on this colourful, ramshackle community.
Featured in the 30 September 2013New Zealand newsletter.
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Publisher : Escalator Press
Publication date : 2013-10
Subjects: Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction