Jane Healey is the author of The Animals at Lockwood Manor (winner of the Historical Debut Novel), The Ophelia Girls, and Crescendo. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award, the Bristol Prize, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She lives in London.

"An enthralling literary symphony of ambition, desire, and obsession, Jane Healey's Crescendo captures the creative and destructive power of art with prose so immersive you'll feel like you're watching an Oscar-worthy film play in your head." --Layne Fargo, bestselling author of THE FAVORITES and THEY NEVER LEARN

"Crescendo is a riveting study in pressure-artistic, romantic, and familial-set within the rarefied world of 1950s French concert halls and ballet. Jane Healey renders ambition and rivalry with remarkable psychological acuity, illuminating the quiet compromises and irreversible choices that shape a life devoted to genius." --Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of THE SECRETS WE KEPT

"This stylish, passionate novel transports you to the gilded salons and concert halls of 1950s Paris, with two gorgeous twins, a count, and a dancer who make each big moves and mistakes for love." --Maria Hummel, author of STILL LIVES and GOLDENSEAL

"A bittersweet tale of a love triangle in 1950s Paris . . . Those who enjoy a romance with a caustic edge will take to this searing work." --Publishers Weekly

"Crescendo is the psychologically gripping story of two siblings, the music that moves them, and the love they so desperately seek. The writing is sexy and layered - I fell under Healey's spell from the very first chapter until its moving and bittersweet end." --Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of THE LAST ROMANTICS, THE HOUSE GIRL, and COMMUNITY BOARD

"A heady and intoxicating tale of rivalry and obsession, talent and envy, desire and destruction - Crescendo set me ablaze." --Kat Dunn, bestselling author of HUNGERSTONE

"An enormous pleasure to read - a thrilling, claustrophobic, passionate study of ambition, neurosis and desire that really sucked me in." --Bridget Collins, internationally bestselling author of THE BINDING

"I couldn't tear myself away from this captivating, heady novel that draws a taut string between the needs of the flesh and the demands of art. The literary love triangle between Max, Natasha and Henri joins the exalted ranks of The Great Gatsby and Brideshead Revisited." --Erin Kelly, author of HE SAID/SHE SAID

"Phenomenal and compulsive, a simmering tale of sibling rivalry and the heady world of classical music. It is really a love story, a love of music, a love of siblings, a love of life. The prose was tender, sexy even and most importantly precise: as accomplished as a virtuoso pianist playing a sonata. I found the ending unexpected and bruising. Terrific." --Molly Aitken author of BRIGHT I BURN

"Crescendo is the perfect title for this book, not only because it revolves around a brilliant pianist, but because the story builds, slowly, grippingly, leaving you breathless with every new revelation, heart beating in your ears until the explosive ending. Then, on the final page, it offers a beautiful note of hope. Healey is an artist." --Carinn Jade, author of ASTROLOGY HOUSE

"A delicious unravelling of complicated siblings in the most sumptuous of settings, I devoured it." --Anna Bailey, internationally bestselling author of TALL BONES and OUR LAST WILD DAYS

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Pub date: 2027-04-27

Length: 320 pages