Your own house will be a whole lot cleaner by the time you finish! Of course "Night Music" is really about the people - the fragile, wounded, too-trusting professional violinist who inherits it, the corrupt builder who pretends to help restore it, but has evil plans of his own, the children caught in the middle of it, the guy who's camping out, unknown, in the boiler room. "Night Music" is very different from that book - maybe even better - but I felt the same compulsion to keep listening until it all got worked out. Another of my favorite books (not the film) is Andre Dubus III's "House of Sand and Fog" which also involves a house everyone wants, and the emotional pull such an embattled dwelling can bring about. Maybe it's just me, but there's something about a battle over a house that attracts me. Can't quite see how any of them could be better than this, but. It's funny, I see other reviewers saying that this isn't Moyes best book, which just blows my mind. "Night Music" won't be the last - except that I expect I'll listen to this one a few more times before I'm finished with it. This was my first exposure to Jojo Moyes - never heard of her before, never come across any of her books before this one, when I rolled the dice on yet another really great Daily Deal. I couldn't stop listening - I had to find some way to justify taking the time to keep listening. It was thanks to this book that I got all the windows in the house washed - inside and out - the garage floor swept and both the linen closet and the sewing room reorganized.
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