Khrushchev’s Piano to be published by The Book Guild in November

Caroline’s second novel, Khrushchev’s PIano, will be published by The Book Guild in November. The book is a fictional re-imagining of the inaugural International Tchaikovsky competition held in 1958 in Soviet Moscow. In this version, the real-life winner American, Van Cliburn, is reinvented as a young British woman, Evie Mason. Diaries and newspaper reports from the time of the competition are interspersed with a present-day narrative in which Evie, now a disabled and impoverished old lady living in a substandard care home, tries to dissuade her pianist granddaughter Anna from making the same mistakes.