Tonspuren

Music is more than just notes...

Ripped from her familiar London surroundings and transplanted to rural Essex, Lavinia Greenlaw, uprooted and lonely, discovers her love and fascination for music amidst piano and violin lessons, her mother's evening madrigal choir rehearsals, opera visits with her father, and Radio Luxembourg. With the onset of puberty, a long identity crisis begins. Her chameleon-like affiliation with different music genres becomes her social currency as she tries to fit in.

Greenlaw's writings are a poetic memoir and a passionate plea for the power and strength of music. It reminds us how inspiring the right song can be at the right time.