Marrying Mozart

<b>Amadeus</b> meets <b>Little Women</b> in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award-winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sisters daughters of a musical family share a crowded artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist and their mother secretly draws up a list of prospective suitors in the kitchen the sisters struggle with their futures both marital and musical--until twenty-one-year-old Wolfgang Mozart walks into their lives. Bringing eighteenth-century Europe to life with unforgiving winters yawning princes scheming parents and the enduring passions of young talent Stephanie Cowell's richly textured tale captures a remarkable historical figure--and the four young women who engage his passion his music and his heart.