The Gentle Care for Broken Things

Coiver image for The Gentle Care for Broken Things. In the foreground is a broken violin lyin gon gold-coloured linen, and in the background is a faded image of the Tasmanian town of Dover and the moutain Adamson's Peak, in dark ble and teal tones.

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. In the year 1700 in Milan, a violin is rejected by […]