Clashing personalities. Chamber music. Post-War trauma. Is harmony possible?Sent unwillingly into school and thrust into a string quartet, crippled Irish cellist Lucy Straughan must choose between isolation and friendship.What has the morose, math-loving Lucy to offer; and will dainty Della Sotheby, hot-headed Pim Connolly, and precocious Phoebe Raye ever accept her?But Lucy has more to give than she realises. Nor is she alone in her troubles.Meticulously crafted and true to life, A Distant Prospect is an intimate, moving, and at times hilarious coming-of-age story set in 1920s Sydney, Australia.Sequel By Violence Unavenged will be published 1 June 2019.