The Melody of Things

Nadia Beard

£18.99


How do we lose touch with the things we love? And is it possible to find our way back to them? These pressing questions drive Nadia Beard on a quest to reclaim the dreams of her childhood for her adult self. Many, if not most of us, set aside the pursuits of youth once the reality of working life sets in, leaving the joys and skills of those days far in our slipstream. This book depicts what coming back to those early loves entails, as Beard uproots her life to return to study the piano, years after she had stopped playing as a teenager. She explores the pleasures, frustrations and revelations of re-dedicating herself to the instrument as an amateur. Her story is an invitation: to seek out the restorative power waiting to be discovered in the pieces of ourselves we have, perhaps unknowingly, lost to time.


Author(s): Beard, Nadia
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 10/09/2026
Pagination: 224 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Published By: Faber & Faber
Book Classification: Lifestyle, hobbies & leisure|Memoirs|Music|Biography & non-fiction prose
Dimensions: 216 x 135
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ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571390779

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