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Sinopsis

It is 1742 and the celebrated composer Georg Handel is in Dublin for the first performance of Messiah. Once the most successful composer of opera in London - feted by aristocracy and royalty alike - Handel is now penniless, recovering from illness, and out of favor, exiled to Dublin. With him and due to sing in his Messiah is the celebrated young actress, Susannah Cibber, the subject of scandal and public disgrace, on the run from an abusive husband.In this exciting historical novel, Walshe recounts Handel's time in Dublin, his sometimes shady role as emissary and spy for the Elector of Hanover (who in 1714 would become George I of Great Britain and Ireland) and his doomed first love affair. With energy and insight, this novel leads up to the first performance of the most celebrated work of sacred music, with failure and loss transformed in a moment by the genius of Handel's musical imagination.

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Dr Pauline Conroy is a social scientist and policy analyst who has worked and studied on equality issues in London, Paris, Florence, Boston, Brussels, Geneva and Dublin. A graduate of University College Dublin and the London School of Economics, she is a writer and lecturer in social policy with a special interest in Disability Studies and Social Care. She has published on disability rights with the thinktank TASC, the Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland, Disability and Society and Studies an Irish Quarterly Review.

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