Trilby

A grand piano no one plays sits in a Paris studio like a coffin, its music and memories locked inside. Taffy and the Laird know what it is to miss Trilby and Little Billee—but how did their friendship begin?

In 1850s Paris, three British art students make a home of their studio and find a bright, irreverent friend in Trilby O’Ferrall, an artist’s model with a gift for winning hearts. Little Billee, a young painter, is drawn into her orbit—and into the question of his first love and lost innocence. Then Svengali, a musician the others distrust, takes an interest in Trilby. Du Maurier’s bohemian Paris is full of jokes, affection and artistic ambition, but beneath its lively talk runs a note of unease. What does Svengali see in Trilby that the others cannot?

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