{"product_id":"9781504003056","title":"A Note in Music: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA seductive new stranger becomes the symbol of everything two married women secretly long for in this richly imagined novel by one of the most distinguished writers of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thirty-four-year-old Grace Fairfax lives a dull, conventional existence with her dull, conventional husband, Tom, in a dreary manufacturing town in the North of England. A year ago, when a fortune-teller told her that her life lacked will and purpose, she wasn’t surprised. Every day the same predictable routine—it’s a wonder she doesn’t go mad.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Then Hugh Miller and his sister, Clare, descend on the town. Clare is young and beautiful. Hugh seems to possess everything lacking in Grace’s life: passion, vitality, and most important, the freedom to do as he pleases. Grace’s best friend, Norah MacKay, isn’t immune to the handsome stranger’s charms, either. Married to Gerald, a curmudgeonly university professor, the mother of two has her own fantasies of desire and liberation. But Hugh isn’t the man Grace and Norah imagine him to be.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In this story of two strangers who cast an otherworldly enchantment on an entire town and its inhabitants, \u003ci\u003eA Note in Music \u003c\/i\u003epresents an intensely moving portrait of marriage—its disappointments, joys, jealousies, fears, and loneliness, and the truths that remain unspoken. ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143303741680,"sku":"9781504003056","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504003056_p0.jpg?v=1769896813","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504003056","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}