The Piano Teacher

Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, is a town of only 2,500 inhabitants with a 1950s mindset doing its best to cope with the social upheavals of the 1970s. Miss Wilma, a widowed music teacher and organist, suddenly finds her quiet and long-empty house full of people -- and trouble, including a broken-hearted pregnant daughter, a clueless son-in-law, a confused granddaughter and eventually her daughter's lover. In two unsettling and chaotic days Miss Wilma finds herself making breakfast for a murder suspect, hiding erotic photographic evidence in her organ bench, going out on her first date in twenty years and even solving a crime. With fantastically strong characterisation and warm and engaging writing, THE PIANO TEACHER is an utterly delicious read for women of all ages.