Unbidden Melody

When Mary Barlow, a dedicated opera lover, takes a job in the office of the reknowned impresario Dermot Deane, little does she expect her work to become so personal.

Just weeks into her new job, she finds herself hosting Nicholas Brenner, a tenor she has long since admired. 

Brenner, recently widowed, takes comfort in the simple but kindly company of Mary and their friendship quickly blossoms into something more. 

Mary tells herself firmly that she could never really belong in Nicholas’s world and that to fall in love with him could only bring her heartbreak, particularly with the threatening mezzo Suzanne Thomas nearby.

They both have their insecurities to contend with, and nobody would ever claim it would be an easy romance, but how could Mary stop herself?