Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the squalid urban neighborhood
where he was raised and made a new life for himself amid the colleges
and spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his
life as a care assistant at a local nursing home, where he has forged a
close friendship with its most ill-tempered resident, Dr. Paulsen.
All that changes one fateful day when Oscar, while wandering the bucolic
grounds of Cambridge, is lured into the chapel at Kings College by the
otherwordly sound of an organ. It is here that he meets and falls in
love with Iris Bellwether, a beautiful and enigmatic medical student.
Drawn into her world of scholarship and privilege, Oscar soon becomes
embroiled in the strange machinations of Iris's older brother, Eden.
A charismatic but troubled musical prodigy, Eden convinces his sister
and their close-knit circle of friends to participate in a series of
disturbing experiments. Eden believes that music -- with his expert
genius to guide it -- can cure people. As the line between genius and
madness begins to blur, however, Oscar fears that it is danger and not
healing that awaits them all -- but it might be too late. . . .
A masterful work of psychological suspense and emotional resonance from
a brilliant young talent, The Bellwether Revivals will hold readers
spellbound until its breathtaking conclusion.
