A novel
Bob Harrington has the life his father planned for him: a house overlooking Cottesloe Beach, a wife who curates their image on Instagram, two children at the right schools, and a fund management business on St George's Terrace that is, very quietly, a fraud.
On a family holiday in Austria, he walks into a violin shop and walks out carrying a broken instrument that will upend everything. Back in Perth, behind a soundproofed office door, he begins to learn the most demanding piece of solo violin music ever written: Bach's Chaconne.
Over two years of obsessive practice, Bob becomes someone his family doesn't recognise. The fund collapses around him. The violin may be worth a fortune. His wife suspects an affair. And on the night of his fiftieth birthday, in front of everyone he has ever loved or lied to, he picks up the instrument and plays.
What happens next will stay with you.