Knit Lit: A book club for knitters
Sun, Mar 23
|Birch Tree Bookstore
Come and talk about books and share your knits and purls.
Time & Location
Mar 23, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Birch Tree Bookstore , 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Buy Instrumentalist on Bookshop.org
A stunning debut novel of music, intoxication, and betrayal inspired by the true story of Anna Maria della Pietà , a Venetian orphan and violin prodigy who studied under Antonio Vivaldi and ultimately became his star musician--and his biggest muse.
"THE INSTRUMENTALIST is more than a history lesson--with this novel, Constable has crafted an engrossing tale about an unexpected coup de musique." --THE NEW YORK TIMES
Anna Maria della Pietà was destined to drown in one of Venice's canals. Instead, she became the greatest violinist of the 18th century.
Anna Maria has only known life inside the Pietà , an orphanage for children born of prostitutes. But the girls of the Pietà are lucky in a sense: most babies born of their station were drowned in the city's canals. And despite the strict rules, the girls are given singing and music lessons from an early age. The most…