William Fiennes is the best-selling author of The Snow Geese, winner of the 2003 Hawthornden Prize, Somerset Maugham Award and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2002. He is also a founder member of the charity First Story, set up to place published authors in creative writing residencies in state schools across the UK.
William Fiennes is the author of the widely-acclaimed The Snow Geese which was shortlisted for the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize. He runs a charity called First Story, and lives and works in London.
The Music Room has an elegiac feel, not least -because Mr. Fiennes
writes about his family with such care and dignity. His
descriptions of Richard's -outbursts and seizures have the
brutality of truth -without any of the modern memoirist's tendency
to sensationalize. We are brought deep into the castle that was a
family's home, yet what we learn still has an air about it of
privacy and restraint. -- Meghan Cox Gurdon
It is a beautiful and fortifying book, even a great one. --
Nicholas Shakespeare
This is no misery memoir...on the contrary, it is a thoughtful and
lyrical account of an extraordinary childhood. -- John Burnside
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