In Ritchie's second novel we are presented with a rich tapestry of interwoven storylines. We are rhetorically asked to consider whether musical performance is technique or passion; how we are shaped by our surroundings and ultimately, what price we are willing to pay to fit in. What was it about a performance more than 50 years ago that launched the singing career of the great Margaret Calloway. How does a farm girl from rural Ontario manage to perform Handel's Messiah with such depth and authority that it becomes the standard by which all other renditions are measured?

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Rob Ritchie is a third generation musician who currently resides in Wiarton, Ontario. Raised in an intensely musical family, he has enjoyed considerable success in that field; spending a decade as piano player and contributing songwriter for the Canadian group Tanglefoot, and with the 2004 release of his solo CD Five O?clock Shadow. It is no surprise that themes of music and performance have seeped into his latest work of fiction.