{"product_id":"9781910670415","title":"Music and Men: The Life \u0026 Loves of Harriet Cohen","description":"\"This is a story that has been waiting to be written for half a century, and Fry has done it proud.\"\u003cp\u003eClassic FM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her beauty had driven him mad with longing. By God, he thought, unless I have that woman I shall be cheated out of my heaven.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Gerhardie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbert Einstein called her 'The Beloved Piano-Witch'. Many famous men were besotted by her. Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Harriet Cohen was both beautiful and talented, becoming a household name in the 1920s and 30s. This is the epic love story between Harriet and Arnold Bax, composer and married man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on previously unpublished love letters, the book charts their unquenchable relationship which set them on a turbulent forty-year path of love, lust and betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis indomitable woman herself had many lovers, and was a great conversationalist whose friends included George Bernard Shaw; D.H. Lawrence, Arnold Bennett and HG Wells, Sir Edward Elgar; Sibelius; Vaughan Williams and William Walton. Politically, her friends included Ramsay MacDonald, the first Labour Prime Minister; Lloyd George, Eleanor Roosevelt; and Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBax's estranged wife Elsa died in September 1947, something which Harriet did not discover for nine months. She believed that now he would marry her, but he harboured a dark secret. His ensuing confession was to have devastating consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thistle Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048536621296,"sku":"9781910670415","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910670415_p0.jpg?v=1763627888","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910670415","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}