Opera by Mari.Reiza

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Opera by Mari.Reiza

 Literary / Romance 

About the Book:

A wealthy arts patron receives a wrongly delivered letter at her secret address in Kensington. Her therapist recognises the intended recipient immediately, leading her into the hands of a defeated composer she will, together with her sweetest accomplice, help back into music. A passionate rendition of human resilience.

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‘Dear lady,’ he springs back in no time though.

She’s ready. She thinks.

‘We have nothing in common, you and me,’ he’s come out of his shell to fight, ‘and despite me sensing your deep need for some new adventure...’ he hesitates, ‘I work alone.’

He writes and he composes and, if he ever has the money one day, he will prepare his music himself for performance and deal with his own administration. All alone. He’s a one man band, his

own impresario.

‘We have something in common.’ Ivanka has come to win and she won’t let it go that easily. She’s frantically searching for clues around the room, as if she could find one tangled in his hair,

under the piano stool, perhaps hidden in his smelly sock?

‘What?’ Maria challenges her with a confidence that verges on arrogance. ‘Look around,’ he tells her, turning on his right foot, like a court clown, mocking her, his corduroy going in circles like a succulent, brown, roasting gyro. ‘What links you and me, exactly? What links me to anybody?’ His eyes are all pupil, challenging yet puzzled, and the corners of the room suddenly seem further away, like he’s about to disappear into nothingness.

Ivanka runs the expanse of the chamber with her re-energised eyes, quickly scanning for traces, some signal more hinting than the sand, his music (he’s surely prepared to claim their shared

passion for his music is not link enough, even after she has sung for him) and the scant furniture. There’s literally nothing, nothing at all on or off the white walls. And the more she looks around, the more the space becomes bigger and Maria smaller in it.

She’s losing him.

He’s not the whole world, nobody is. Will she panic if he fades away?

Because he does suddenly feel like the whole world to her, early stages of infatuation, she knows, and she does not want him to disappear. She prays for a miracle, even if she’s not the religious type.

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About the Author:
Mari.Reiza was born in Madrid in 1973. She has worked as an investment research writer and management consultant for twenty years in London. She studied at Oxford University and lives off Portobello Road with her husband and child.

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