Written in a refreshingly straightforward and unbuttoned style, this debut novel maintains a very fast pace. It has a mischievously sincere ring, based on a lifetime's experience of the opera business. But it is certainly not written for insiders only. The characters are drawn with a rapier, ribald wit that provokes the eruptions of laughter that may cause embarrassment on a train. Can easily be read uninterrupted. The absolutely perfect holiday read. --Amazon.com
Fantastic story and a complete romp behind the scenes of a beautifully observed world of opera. The characters are wonderfully real and the story is totally engaging. As well as being hilarious and sometimes a bit racy (!), it has its tear-jerking moments too. John Graham-Hall has a splendid writing style, full of wit and well-paced throughout. I just LOVED it and didn't want it to end. More from Mr Graham-Hall please! --Amazon.co.uk
A novel that lifts the veil on opera off-stage. The tales of sex, cash and back-stabbing... make for a florid Rabelaisian romp. --Jasper Rees - Sunday Times
Lindsey Templeton is a young and beautiful diva with the opera world at her feet. She has everything – a glittering career and a wonderful family, to whom she is devoted. But into her life walks opera-mad Russian billionaire Sergei Rebroff, who wants to buy his way into overall control of a European opera company. And when she falls pregnant, she doesn’t know who the father is. Is it Sergei? Or is it her husband, Jamie Barlow, casting director of London’s third opera company, Opera London? Set in the opera houses and festivals of Europe during the closing months of Tony Blair’s premiership, My Wife the Diva is a comic romp through the glamorous but often murky world of international opera. It is also devastatingly honest about the anger and despair wrought on family and friends by the frenetic lifestyle of a jet-setting artist. "A Rabelaisian romp" (Jasper Rees Sunday Times) The author is opera singer John Graham-Hall, whose recent appearances have included Aschenbach in Britten’s Death in Venice at ENO and La Scala, Milan.
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