Music & Silence is Rose's eighth novel. She has completed a screenplay based on Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds and is adapting Sacred Country in three parts for television.
She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger (Sacred Country), the Sunday Express Book of the Year and the Booker Prize Shortlist (Restoration), the Dylan Thomas Short Story Award (The Colonel's Daughter), a Giles Cooper Award (for the play Temporary Shelter) and the Angel Literary Award (twice).
In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra.
From
the moment when he realises that the musicians have to perform in a freezing
cellar underneath the Royal apartments, he understands that he's come
to a place where the opposing states of Good and Evil, Light and Dark
are waging a war to the death.
Designated the 'King's Angels' because of his blond good looks, he finds himself falling in love with a young woman who is the companion of the King's adulterous and estranged wife, Kirsten. With his loyalties fatally divided, how can Peter Claire find the path that will realise his hopes and save his soul?
