Lovingly Restored

<p>Piano restorer Russell Tompkinson is a strong man toughened by life’s hard knocks. Most of his life he has dealt with his own problems and is slow to appreciate the feelings of the disadvantaged and vulnerable.</p><p>That is until he embarks on a quest for provenance connected with an antique piano owned by Julie’s Club a self-help organisation for families of chronically-ill children.</p><p>Gradually a new attitude begins to emerge as acquaintances appeal to his long-forgotten sensitivity and help him make sense of man’s eternal brain-teaser the female psyche.</p><p>One of them is destined to join him in a lasting relationship but he has no way of knowing which and is even less certain that he will find the vital evidence that the piano was once a gift to the greatest pianist of all time.</p>