The Gentle Care for Broken Things

<p><strong>An imaginative novel blending real events and historical figures with fiction as it follows the story of a unique violin the people it touches and the strange and magical history of Tasmanian folk music as played from Cape Barren Island to the Huon Valley.</strong></p><p>In the year 1700 in Milan a violin is rejected by master luthier Carlo Giuseppe Testore and begins its journey through time and place absorbing the music of centuries along the way.</p><p>Three hundred years later Haley is new to Tasmania and finding her feet as a music teacher and as a violinist in the local folk music scene. She asks Aaron a Hobart craftsman to restore the battered Testore violin in a desperate bid to help Jesse a young girl devastated by grief.</p><p>Original heartfelt and immersed in place and history<em> The Gentle Care for Broken Things</em> is a testament to the deep importance of musical expression and the redeeming power of simple kindness and connection.</p>