La's Orchestra Saves the World book cover

La's Orchestra Saves the World

224 pages
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Published: 1 Nov 2008
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ISBN: 9781846970924

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Polygon

Publication date: 1 November 2008

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La Stone is a widow who, as the Nazi threat looms, assembles a ragtag orchestra in rural Suffolk in hopes of altering "the temper of the world." She falls for one of her recruits, a Polish pilot with a suspicious past. But patriotism trumps passion, leaving La to worry if her life will always be "a play in which I have no real part." In McCall-Smith's quintessentially English world, perserverance, pots of tea and the power of music will show the way.
(Ellen Shapiro for People magazine)