The Choir
About this ebook
For eight years, Eliza Kingwell has been secretly saving for one thing: enough money to escape her violent husband and take her five daughters to safety. When he finds and takes the money, her only option is to enter a local singing competition that offers a cash prize large enough to change her life. She gathers a group of feisty, working-class women into a choir to compete for it.
Ruth Henton left Briarstown twelve years ago and became a star on the London stage. Now disgraced by scandal, she has returned to Yorkshire as a judge in the very competition Eliza needs to win.
Two estranged friends find themselves on opposite sides of the same stage, with years of secrets, wounds, and unfinished business between them. As Eliza's choir trains for its chance at glory, friendships deepen, long-buried wounds surface, and both women must decide what they are willing to forgive.
Set in a fictional mill town in 1890s Yorkshire, The Choir is a story of music, sisterhood, and women who find their voices when the world would rather they stayed silent.
Perfect for fans of Tracy Chevalier, Pip Williams, and Jennifer Chiaverini.
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About the author
Carol M. Cram is the award-winning author of the Women in the Arts Trilogy (The Towers of Tuscany, A Woman of Note, and The Muse of Fire), the contemporary novel Love Among the Recipes (which received a Publishers Weekly Starred Review), and her forthcoming historical novel The Choir. She also hosts the Art In Fiction Podcast, where she interviews authors who write novels inspired by the arts, and writes a travel blog called The Artsy Traveler.
Before becoming a full-time novelist, podcaster, and blogger, Carol authored over sixty bestselling textbooks in computer applications and business communications for Cengage Learning and Houghton Mifflin. She holds an MA in Drama and an MBA, and taught for many years on the faculty at Capilano University. She lives on Bowen Island near Vancouver, Canada with her husband, visual artist Gregg Simpson.
