Sandscript in Character

The 2014 BBC Proms Season is in full swing and if you can’t get to the Royal Albert Hall you may listen to every concert on BBC Radio Three. You can also watch some of the concerts on television and listen to people talking about The Proms.
I was watching ‘Proms Extra’ when they discussed the dynamic violinist Julia Fischer, who played Dvorak’s Violin Concerto in Prom 5 with the Tonhalle Orchestra. This young woman also plays the piano and has played at least one concert with concertos on both instruments. It was at this point that reality became stranger than fiction.
In my novel ‘Brief Encounters of the Third Kind’ Emma Dexter, almost the same age as Julia Fischer, plays both violin and piano at her concerts. From a very ordinary family, Emma’s talents astonish everyone and her mother fears this is proof she is not human. Perhaps Emma is more amazing than most of the world class musicians we admire; she is also a composer and in the early years of the Twenty First Century her music is acknowledged to be among the great works. I expect many talented soloists would be envious of the phenomenal memory that enables Emma Dexter to dispense with practising. Read the novel to discover how Emma and her mother search for the truth, how ordinary people cope with extraordinary events.
If you read the Radio Times or the Proms Guide you may find concerts of Emma Dexter’s music listed; then you will know reality is stranger than fiction.