" A music teacher's failure with her gifted student is the starting point for this deeply felt meditation...on the demands of musical passion and human love.... [The novel] presents music as a glorious matephor for an approach to life." —Kirkus Reiews
"This keenly observed and piercing character study of a complex, haunted woman grappling with the disappointments in her life and reevaluating her own ambitions should resonate with readers long after the final page is turned." —Booklist
Hall, award-winning creator and writer of Judging Amy and Joan of Arcadia, among other TV credits, tells the story of a violinist who has accepted the limitations of her talent and looks for the casual satisfaction of trying to instill her passion for music in others in her latest novel. She gets more than she bargains for when a young girl named Hallie enters her life. For here at last is the real thing: someone with the talent and potential to be truly great. “Barbara Hall's novel The Music Teacher does to, and with, music teachers what Nick Hornby's High Fidelity does to, and with, record store geeks. What a smart alecky, unputdownable, brutally honest, heartbreaking glory of a book.” —Brock Clarke(An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England)
