January 15, 2025
2MBS Review of Big Music by Tricia Elgar
It is not often that Australian fiction takes us into the worlds of classical music or academia.
In Big Music, Gillian Wills invites us to explore both. Through the trials and triumphs of Beatrice Snow, musician, horse-lover and Dean of Turalong Music School, the behind-the-scenes conflicts of this relatively closeted sphere of our contemporary culture are exposed.
Gillian Wills is an accomplished music reviewer and memoirist, and this is her debut as an author of fiction. Her background as a professional musician and academic shines through in her writing.