{"product_id":"the-ghost-variations-by-damian-lanigan","title":"'The Ghost Variations' by Damian Lanigan","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"810\"\u003eA novel about music, fixation and toeing the line between devotion and possession. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"810\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"388\" data-end=\"410\"\u003eThe Ghost Variations\u003c\/em\u003e circles around a pianist and the difficulty of performance: the rehearsals, the ghosts in the room, the old loves, the rivalries, the mythologies that gather around talent until the person underneath starts to vanish. Lanigan writes with a nice clipped intelligence here — the prose has that composed, slightly cool surface, but underneath it there’s a lot of erosion. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"812\" data-end=\"1263\"\u003eThis is one for readers drawn to literary novels about art-making, emotional control, desire, memory and the private distortions that sit behind public brilliance. It has a chamber-piece quality: elegant, tense, intimate, and slightly airless in the right way. Good for readers of music-adjacent fiction, books about obsession, and novels where the real drama is not what happens on stage, but what has already been rotting quietly behind the curtain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1265\" data-end=\"1471\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first published 2022 by Weatherglass Books. Paperback. Very good used condition with light shelf wear and minor handling to cover\/corners. Pages clean, binding sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44834367635539,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-30T120424.962.png?v=1780106695","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-ghost-variations-by-damian-lanigan","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}