The Piano Tuner

A remarkable first novel by a young author who is also currently a medical student: the extraordinary adventure and delicate love story of a British piano tuner, sent deep into 19th Century Burma to repair a rare Erard Grand.

In the murky haze of a London morning in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a letter that presents to him a challenge certain to change his life forever. Accepting the post offered to him by the Burma and East India Division of Her Majesty's Army, he leaves wife and work to embark on a three month mission across the seas.

But Edgar is not going to be fighting for his country. His travels are the direct result of a request by highly respected Major Surgeon Anthony Carroll, secured in the Shan States. He has asked that a specialist piano tuner be paid to travel from England and mend his Erard Grand. But why?

So begins the epic and unusual journey of mild-mannered Edgar to meet the enigmatic and mysterious Anthony Carroll. He soon realises however, that there is more to the surgeon than an eccentric love of music, and he becomes increasingly curious about the gentleman who will greet him in inland Burma: so much so that, before long, he wonders if he will ever return home at all. If, indeed, he has that choice . . .