Hannah Waters and the daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach

Nickel, Barbara, 1966-

Book 2005

Catharina Bach is ignored and frightened by her father, the composer Johann Sebastian Bach but fascinated by his Concerto for Two Violins. Three hundred years later Hannah Waters is trying to cope with her mother's death three years earlier and her move from Toronto to Clear Lake, Saskatchewan. The two girls reach out to each other across the centuries and draw strength and solace from each other.

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