Songspinners
"The gift is not a perfect gift. It carryes the curse of madness with it... the Songspinners live a short intense life, gladdening all with their unique talents before their genius is brutally extinguished..."
Orial is tormented by strange dreams, by sounds others do not hear. She escapes to her mother's tomb, losing herself in singing to Iridial's memory. What she does not know is that her hidden talent may be her undoing.
When Orial becomes the scribe to a composer whose injured hands cannot write, she takes the first steps on the road to madness and war. For in Orial's world music is a tool for rebellion and dissent and the notes she transcribes are the battle hymn of a people.
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Sarah Ash
Sarah Ash read music at New Hall, Cambridge for four years, studying with Robin Holloway and John Rutter for her finals. Her interests in music and drama led her into teaching where she has been lucky to work with many dynamic and talented young people.
Although she had co-written several musicals for young performers, she decided in 1991 to concentrate her creative energies on her other passion: writing. Having been shortlisted in the final ten of the Guardian Children’s Fiction award for a – still unpublished – fantasy The Mabinogion Mice, her breakthrough came in 1992 with the publication in Interzone of the short story ‘Moth Music’.
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