A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ___ 'A masterpiece'SCOTSMAN'A wise, refreshing novel ... Runcie has an expert imagination' HILARY MANTEL 'A masterclass in writing about the power of music and grief'THE TIMES , 100 best books for summer 2022 ___ Love and Death. Grief and Joy. Music that lasts forever. Leipzig, 1726. Eleven-year-old Stefan Silbermann has just lost his mother. Sent to Leipzig to train as a singer in the St Thomas Church choir, he is rescued from his homesickness and grief by the Cantor: Johann Sebastian Bach himself. Stefan is brought into the Bach household as an apprentice - until a devastating loss brings his period of sanctuary to a close. Something is happening, though. In the depths of his loss, the Cantor is