Marguerite Steen
ASIN: B06Y2FRMS9
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 301
The Legend has been spun…Richard Adam was once a famous pianist and composer – and when he died, his last wife, Jacoba, devotes her life to his eternal memorial.To cement her once husband’s ‘immortality’, she turns Edengarde into both Richard’s final resting place and as a museum dedicated to him.Jacoba also writes The Biography.In it, she writes herself to be the only one whom Richard ever truly loved, the muse Richard always sought: the perfect wife and mother to the perfect pianist. All his former lovers and even former wife, Babette, are reduced to trifling little affairs and common ‘sluts’.Despite her ruthlessness, Jacoba’s theatrics work and the ‘Legend’ of Richard Adam is revered as sacred fact.While Jacoba and Richard had children, all of them proved useless to Jacoba – only perhaps useful in creating the Legend.However, there is her granddaughter, Daniela ‘Dendy’ Champion.She ...