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Angel Eyes
The Violin Trade, Money, Power,
Corruption & Sex
Roger Graham Hargrave
KEY SELLING POINTS
A novel chronicling the adventures of Grace Scott as she attempts to become an independent woman in the
violin trade, a business dominated completely by men.
Although numerous publications have focused on the world of classical music, few have been willing to lift
the lid on the sacrosanct image of this world.
Roger Hargrave's five separate but linked novels blow the lid completely off this Lovely Dirty Business.
In 1929, after her mother dies giving birth to her Grace Scott is raised by her father and German grandfather,
who run a violin business in Chicago. As a teenager, Grace develops a formidable intellect, but believing that
she will never find a husband, and to provide her with a degree of autonomy, her father and grandfather turn her
into an outstanding violin connoisseur.
In spite of their efforts, and determined to control her own destiny, Grace seduces an older English violin
dealer. However, when the pair move to war ravaged London, her plan backfires. Using their daughter as
leverage, her husband controls Grace's every move.
In 1965, after years of oppression and exploitation, Grace, begins a torrid affair with her husband’s youngest
employee. Things reach a crisis when Grace discovers that her father-in-law has been hoarding a collection of
antique violins that were stolen by the Nazis. Horrified, Grace realises she must arrange for the instrument’s
restitution. After returning to the United States and alone in Washington DC Grace becomes embroiled in
women’s emancipation, equal rights and the anti-Vietnam war movement.
Roger Graham Hargrave is a successful violin maker and an internationally recognised expert on classical
Italian violins. For more than forty years has been lecturing and writing about these instruments, and why
musicians, dealers, collectors and even criminals, are prepared to pay millions of dollars to own one.
Publication Date: 28th January 2024 £10.99 ISBN: 9781805142027
Thema subject category: FBA – Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
paperback 198 x 129 mm 352 pp Portrait Author location: Germany
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