Ludwig Unger’s life held such promise. His parents were artists and, from an early age, his own musical genius had marked him out for a stellar career in the world’s concert halls. In his mother’s imagination, Ludwig is already on the way to surpassing her most ambitious dreams for him. But in reality, and for now, he’s playing in local cocktail bars and the two of them are living alone in a storm-lashed clifftop cottage in East Anglia. As the forceful winter seas bash away at the coastline, and Ludwig plunks away at the piano, he begins to tell a woman his story: a story of beauty and decay, of a child’s faith and parental betrayal, and of the importance, in the end, of self-sacrifice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Ludwig Unger returns to his hometown after a decade, he arrives with a plastic bag filled with his mother’s ashes and little else. He was there to make amends with his lonely past, to say goodbye to the familial ghosts that still haunted him. Raised in a cliff-top cottage on the east coast of England, his mother had done her best to create a normal life for him after her megalomaniac husband left them to pursue his art. Ludwig grew up in her shadow, developing an obsession with her and her sensual allure. But when he discovered her past life as the famous porn star Eve LaSage and her plans to stage a comeback, Ludwig’s world span out of control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[328,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-92827","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-general-fiction","6":"product_tag-fiction-in-translation","7":"product_tag-modern-contemporary-fiction-post-c-1945","8":"pa_book_author-wieringa-tommy","9":"pa_cover-paperback","10":"pa_dewey-839-3137-edition23","11":"pa_edition-new-edition","12":"pa_imprint-scribe-uk","13":"pa_language-english","14":"pa_pages-9981","15":"pa_publisher-scribe-publications","16":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","18":"first","19":"instock","20":"taxable","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"purchasable","23":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n