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I discovered a new side to Venice through its music

Nov 8, 2024 | msn.com | Harriet Constable

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I discovered a new side to Venice through its music

Nov 8, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Harriet Constable

La Fenice opera house has suffered three fires during its two centuries in existence Credit: Alamy Dusk was setting when I first stepped foot on Venice, armed with my laptop and a suitcase full of books. It was January 2022; I was one of the first tourists to arrive post-pandemic. I clambered off the Vaporetto water taxi to see gulls cutting circles in the sky, bellies lit gold by the day’s last breath. I rented a tiny two-bed cottage with low ceilings and diamond-cut windows, craning my neck...
The Instrumentalist

Nov 1, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Harriet Constable

. Aug. 2024. 10:55 hrs. ISBN 9781797182032. $25.99. F COPY ISBN Narrator Emilia Clarke channels the intensity of journalist and filmmaker Constable’s atmospheric debut, charting the life and legacy of composer and virtuoso violinist Anna Maria della Pietà (1696–1782). Anna Maria was raised in Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà, a convent and orphanage known for producing exemplary musicians through its world-renowned music school.
PODCAST: Harriet Constable and Her Commitment to Crafting a Narrative That Brings the Past to Life

Oct 23, 2024 | betterreading.com.au | Harriet Constable

Harriet Constable talks to Cheryl about her unconventional path to writing, her immersive research process in Venice, and the significant historical themes she explores in her work. Her latest novel, The Instrumentalist, is out now. Harriet Constable is a writer and filmmaker based in London. Her debut novel, The Instrumentalist, sold to Bloomsbury following a seven-way auction in the UK, Simon & Schuster in the US and Harper Collins in Canada.
An Engrossing and Stunning Historical Epic: Read Our Review of The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable

Sep 16, 2024 | betterreading.com.au | Harriet Constable

The true story of Anna Maria della Pietà, a Venetian orphan and violin prodigy who studied under Antonio Vivaldi and ultimately became his star musician. Anna Maria has only known life inside the Pietà, an orphanage for children born of prostitutes. But the girls of the Pietà are lucky in a sense: most babies born of their station were drowned in the city’s canals. And despite the strict rules, the girls are given singing and music lessons from an early age.
The Best New Historical Fiction

Aug 29, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Robert Harris |Tracy Chevalier |Harriet Constable |Francesca De Tores

Precipice Precipice is the latest historical novel by Robert Harris, one of our favourite writers here at Five Books for his page-turners that rely on historical sources. Precipice is about the outbreak of World War I, told from the point of view of, amongst others, the British prime minister, H.H. Asquith. If this is a piece of history you're at all interested in, it will make your jaw drop, and not in a good way.
An Evening with Harriet Constable, Interviewed by A.K. Blakemore - The Instrumentalist

Aug 24, 2024 | waterstones.com | Harriet Constable

Join us for an evening with debut novelist Harriet Constable, who will be discussing her debut novel The Instrumentalist with A.K. Blakemore (The Glutton, The Manningtree Witches), a dazzling story of ambition, talent and passion based on real-life seventeenth-century Venetian violinist and composer Anna Maria. Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.
7 Novels That Shine a Light on Overlooked Women in History

Aug 22, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Harriet Constable

Wolfgang Mozart was remarkable. But then, so was his sister Nannerl. We’ve heard a lot about George Orwell, less about his fascinating wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy. How familiar are you with Dame Alice Kyteler, the first woman in Ireland to be condemned as a witch? Or Marie de France, a 12th century poet? Or Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the finest painters of the 17th century? Talented, smart, ambitious women came before us, as well as talented, smart, ambitious men.
She Was a Pioneering but Forgotten Musician. Now She's a Literary Hero.

Aug 17, 2024 | nytimes.com | Harriet Constable

THE INSTRUMENTALIST, by Harriet ConstableThough plenty of talented women have performed and composed music in Europe over the last several centuries, few are enshrined in the classical canon. Why have their names and works disappeared from history? There are many explanations.
10 best books of August just right for the waning days of summer

Aug 15, 2024 | csmonitor.com | Sarah Seltzer |Peter Heller |Harriet Constable |Yoko Ogawa

This month’s 10 best picks include novels that probe issues such as masculinity, reconciliation, ambition, and remembrance. They span historical eras from 18th-century Venice to 1960s America. Among the nonfiction titles is the story of a wrongly incarcerated man and the Texas legal system that kept him imprisoned for decades. And a history of bookstores in the United States explores how many of these shops served as centers for social change.