The Moonlit Garden
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When a stranger delivers an old violin to Lilly Kaiser's Berlin antiques shop and tells Lilly it belongs to her, she's completely bewildered. Together with her best friend, Ellen, and handsome musicologist Gabriel Thornton, Lilly sets out to explore the violin's legacy. From England to Italy to Indonesia, she follows its winding trail. Along the way, she learns of Rose Gallway, a beautiful woman of English and Sumatran descent who lived among Sumatra's lush gardens more than a hundred years earlier. A celebrated and sought-after musician, Rose once owned Lilly's violin and regularly played concerts for Sumatra's colonial elite, until one day, she simply disappeared.
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The concept for this book was interesting: a woman is mysteriously given a violin and works to find out the history of the instrument and its owners. But the writing was so unrealistic to me. Characters overexplained jokes to each other, and the main character agonizes about going on a “date” with the man she's interested in, despite the fact that they spend significant time with each other throughout the book. I think this would qualify as a “beach read.”
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