Description
SECONDHAND BOOK
Hephzibah Menuhin had a musical gift most people only dream of. Her refusal to be defined by it led her to reinvent herself not once, but twice in her remarkable life. Born in 1920 in San Francisco she was, like her world-renowned violinist brother Yehudi, a child prodigy, simultaneously thrown into the spotlight at an early age and closeted by a dominating, controlling mother. She married Lindsay Nicholas, the Melbourne-born heir to a pharmaceutical fortune, and moved to his sheep property in western Victoria. Far from playing the conventional wife of a wealthy grazier, Hephzibah threw herself into humanitarian projects in her adopted country, raised two sons, and resumed performing to international acclaim. But after sixteen years, she met a man who drew her to question what she thought she knew – and to abandon her established life a second time. An Exacting Heart reveals the complex and contradictory nature of Hephzibah Menuhin: warm-hearted, humorous, astute, generous, occasionally ruthless and wrong-headed. In portraying the life and times of this fascinating and mercurial woman, Jacqueline Kent examines not only the consequences of possessing great talent, but the costs and rewards of gambling for high emotional stakes.
Specifications:
Condition: Very Good. Light wear.
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2008
Format: Hardback
Pages: 440
ISBN: 9780670071173
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