The Piano Tuner’s Daughters
The Piano Tuner’s Daughters, Two Sisters, One Journey
This historical drama is based on the lives of my maternal grandparents’, Walter and Winnie and Winnie’s sister the beautiful Francesca. Two sisters, one journey. They are the piano tuner’s daughters. Their father was a piano journeyman who visited homes in London to tune pianos.
Encompassing the Boer Wars, the end of the Victorian era and the Titanic tragedy, The Piano Tuner’s Daughters is both an adventure and an Edwardian romance story. Originally published as Whispers through Time in 2019, it now has an updated cover and title. As well I rewrote the earlier part to delete personal family details and names. I wrote the original as a gift for my Ancestry obsessed sister, not realising she would find me a publisher. So, the book was an accidental novel. The London publisher and I parted ways and I retrieved my rights. The story is stronger now with less passive voice. Even better it now is the first book in a series or trilogy of three, the Sister’s Time Trilogy. The second book is Postcard to Picardy and the last is Last Time Forever. They are all on Kindle Unlimited as a series or standalone novels.
Book 1 of Sister’s Time Trilogy
The Piano Tuner’s Daughters as the first book of the Sisters Time Trilogy is also a then and now story. The mysteries that surrounded Winnie’s life in the past intrigue her real-life grand-daughter, Heady, who tries to unravel them from the present.
Why did young Winifred leave London alone on a ship just months after the Titanic tragedy to travel to Australia? There are icebergs in the vast dark Indian Ocean as well as the North Atlantic.
Why especially in June 1912, just months after the Titanic tragedy? Where did her brother, Oscar, disappear to without a trace? And what happened to her beautiful younger sister, Francesca, after her tragic love affair?
Time is an ever-present theme that waxes and wanes like a tide throughout lives. There are the what-if moments, the only if moments and the sad reality that past and present generations can never meet, forever separated by time.
Reviews of The Piano Tuner’s Daughters
“The Piano Tuner’s Daughters by Joni Scott is a fascinating dual timeline novel that grabs the reader’s attention from the start. It is set between 1905-1912 and 2014-2016. I thoroughly enjoyed the novel. It was a fascinating glimpse into a bygone age. I can highly recommend it.” Julia on Goodreads.
“I am leaving 5 stars because that is the MOST I can leave! I wanted to leave more! What a gorgeous debut novel. The historical setting was so incredible. It transported me to a different time. She got the setting, the time and the language right. What a masterpiece!” Charles on Goodreads.
