The Music Between: A Novel

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The Music Between is a lively, accomplished debut emphasizing high feeling and complexity of character. Ellen Sollinger Walker is a great new voice and a wonderful writer about music. She brings freshness and vitality to her story of the classics. 

--Rick Moody, bestselling author of The Ice Storm and On Celestial Music

The Music Between is my favorite type of fictional experience: A sumptuous symphony of surprising prose woven with an intimate narration that sews around your heart and psyche from the first page. Passionate and beautifully written, this yearning love story lingers even as it stretches across oceans and decades.

--Rachel McMillan, bestselling author of The London Restoration and The Mozart Code

“If music be the food of love,” then Walker’s debut novel, The Music Between, is a rare feast. Rich with passion, pathos, and tender longing, the story of classical pianist Elizabeth, her husband, Russ, and her intriguing Maltese obsession, Nico, conveys the complexities of human relationships and emotion with a deftness and purity matched only by the sonatas and nocturnes that fill the pages of their lives. The result is a deeply rewarding reading experience:  its graceful prose, written by a classical pianist herself, moves in harmony with the music around which the novel is composed, sounding the depths of the human heart.

--Sean Pauzauskie, author of Stage of Fools

A beautifully written novel, The Music Between is woven with the same lyrical precision we expect from protagonist Elizabeth, a classical musician forced to face the unanswered questions of her past. Told with remarkable vulnerability and power, Sollinger Walker’s novel will touch hearts for many generations to come. 

--C. I. Jerez, author of At the Island’s Edge 

Ellen Sollinger Walker has created an exquisite narrative that combines romance, complex marital issues, a classical music motif, and outright brilliant writing. Open it up, and you won't put it down!

           --Jon Michael Miller, author of Love and War at Kent State