http://www.seniorscard.nsw.gov.au/community/competitions/win-a-family-pass-to-the-musical-ladies-in-black-at-sydney-festivalWin a signed copy of The Midnight Pianist book
The Midnight Pianist is set in 1960, in a small country town. Looking back, it seems an innocent time: after the Korean War and before Vietnam – a time well before smart phones and social media – when people wrote letters to friends, or gosh, they talked to each other!
Fourteen-year-old Sandra is a shy but ambitious piano student, secretly in love with older boy, Nick, but he’s left school and hardly knows she exists. Finally she meets him at a polocrosse carnival but inevitable difficulties confront these young people who yearn for greater things – in Sandra’s case to be a concert pianist; and Nick, desperate for a different career to life on the family farm.
Bookshops call The Midnight Pianist ‘historical fiction’ which amuses anyone who grew up in the ’60s: you’re part of history! Although I imagined young adult readers, plenty of older vintage readers are enjoying the nostalgic hit. The oldest is a gentleman of 87, the youngest is 12. Writer for the Herald, Candida Baker describes it as a “coming-of-age story about first love, teenage dreams and the courage to face reality… all told through a filter of beautiful music.”
The Midnight Pianist is available as a paperback and eBook from bookshops and online at Booktopia and Amazon. Playing with Keys, Book 2 in the Series will be released in December.
Julia is kindly giving away two signed copies of her novel The Midnight Pianist, for your chance to win a signed copy please visit
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MidPianistCompetition closes on Friday 25 November 2016
Australian Competitions Club
