The Common Piano Teacher

Nathalie, as a baby was left on the steps of the Regent street Orphanage in London. She had a small silver bracelet on her wrist engraved with her name. In the orphanage she learnt to play the piano she also experienced her first true love with the Irish girl, Cathleen. During her time in the orphanage she also befriended a farmer and his French wife. At sixteen years of age she left the Orphanage to work as a servant with an aristocratic English family. There she tutored their younger daughter Emily on the piano. All went well until the master of the house attempted to rape her. After that she was falsely accused of theft and had to fled to Paris to escape the English police. Emily because of unforeseen circumstances joined her in Paris. Emily loved a stable boy, Nathalie loved a Baron. Both men were beyond their grasp. Fate then had them both accused of a crime they did not commit. Both then faced death by the guillotine. Both girls had to avoid that death at all costs. Their paths would separate under totally different situations in avoiding the guillotine. They then both had to be united with the men they loved. With their personal struggles and triumphs they had to also navigate their way through the French Revolution back to the safety of the shores of England. Would both girls eventually avoid death by the guillotine. Would either of them end up with the man they loved. This is a story of adventure, of miraculous circumstances, of avoiding death by the guillotine and of people seeking love. It's a story about a common piano teacher and her pupil and best friend Emily. It's a story of love however both girls would have to kill to survive. Adeline, a French prostitute was the key to that survival. Adeline would also have to kill to survive. Amongst the killings would love triumph.