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The Choir
In a world that wants to silence them, one group of women dares to sing.
By Carol Cram
In the dreary streets of 1890s Briarstown, a fictional Yorkshire mill town, Eliza Kingwell fights to survive in a home filled with hardship. When a devastating loss crushes her plan to escape with her five daughters, she turns to an unlikely lifeline: a local singing competition. With nothing left to lose, she gathers a feisty group of working-class women to form a choir—and sets her sights on a cash prize that could change her life forever.
Meanwhile, Ruth Henton—once Eliza’s best friend and now a star on the London stage—is disgraced by scandal and must find new purpose and redemption. As fate would have it, Ruth becomes a judge in the very competition Eliza needs to win.
While Eliza’s choir trains for its chance at glory, secrets simmer, friendships deepen, and long-buried wounds surface. In a time and place where women’s voices are too often ignored, The Choir is a triumphant story of music, sisterhood, and reclaiming power.
Perfect for fans of Jennifer Chiaverini, Tracy Chevalier and Pip Williams, The Choir is a stirring, beautifully written novel that celebrates the strength of women who dare to rise—and sing.
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Carol M. Cram is the award-winning author of the Women in the Arts Trilogy (The Towers of Tuscany, A Woman of Note, and The Muse of Fire), the contemporary novel Love Among the Recipes (which received a Publishers Weekly Starred Review), and her forthcoming historical novel The Choir. She also hosts the Art In Fiction Podcast, where she interviews authors who write novels inspired by the arts, and writes a travel blog called The Artsy Traveler.
Before becoming a full-time novelist, podcaster, and blogger, Carol authored over sixty bestselling textbooks in computer applications and business communications for Cengage Learning and Houghton Mifflin. She holds an MA in Drama and an MBA, and taught for many years on the faculty at Capilano University. She lives on Bowen Island near Vancouver, Canada with her husband, painter Gregg Simpson.