{"product_id":"the-girl-from-melodia-jonathan-toussaint-9781919354422","title":"The Girl From Melodia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Girl From Melodia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA literary tragedy of obsession, music, and the love that destroys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngland\/France 1992. At the Tulle festival, troubled musician Martyn Lockhart meets Françoise Audrey-a French singer whose voice is a revelation. Her melodies are raw, luminous, alive. His are rigid, starved, desperate. What begins as breathless love curdles into possession, and a ravenous jealousy grows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through Martyn's fevered recollections and Françoise's hidden diary, The Girl From Melodia is a slow, exquisite heartbreak. There is no redemption here-only the echo of a voice silenced too soon, and the man who learns too late that some muses cannot be caged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContent note: Themes of emotional manipulation, illness, and doomed love. This is not a romance with a happy ending.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers interested in the mind of the self-destructive musician, this is an elegy to the art we kill to create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Toussaint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1919354425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781919354422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boy from Melodia Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Jonathan Toussaint","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48437592785151,"sku":"9781919354422","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a1218789-a9fb-4e99-95d1-e774786ef6be.jpg?v=1777162782","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-girl-from-melodia-jonathan-toussaint-9781919354422","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}