<p>Pivoting on the unassuming figure of May Wedderburn, 'The First Violin' by Jessie Fothergill weaves a narrative of delicate emotional textures set against a backdrop of classical music. Through Fothergill's elegant Victorian prose, the reader is escorted into the idyllic yet confined existence of a young woman in a provincial English town, with music as both her solace and her destiny. Marrying the charm of pastoral literary tradition with the...