Barcarolle
Just as a piano tuner might once have been a concert pianist, so a broken-backed upright can be the piano of someone's dreams. Read by Mark Meadows.
Perfect Lives is Polly Samson's second collection of short stories, each linked to the others by themes of imperfection, compromise and the joy of accepting life as it is.
2: Barcarolle, read by Mark Meadows
Just as a piano tuner might once have been a concert pianist, so a broken-backed upright can be the piano of someone's dreams.
Abridged and produced by Christine Hall.
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