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Jane Thynne ignores neurons and focuses on Mozart
15th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
You either think my secret fantasy is a bit perverse, or disappointingly tame. It features the image of a bun-haired teacher at school assembly sitting down at the piano and bashing out Jerusalem. It evokes a whole mixture of feelings in me, but mostly, pure envy.
To play the piano so confidently, so second nature. To have your fingers float like that across the keys! To understand chords and scales...
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Jane Thynne
Jane Thynne is the author of three novels, and has been a journalist on among others The Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Independent. She started out making programmes on BBC TV before being irresistibly drawn to the wry cynicism of Fleet Street, which is now wryly and cynically in decline. She has also worked as a presenter on Radio 4. She lives in Wimbledon, with her three children and her husband who writes prodigiously in the basement





