Virginia Lloyd Virginia Lloyd i(A112992 works by)
Gender: Female
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Virginia Lloyd has worked as a book editor and literary agent. She has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Sydney. Lloyd has been President of Sydney PEN and Vice-President of the Sydney Improvised Music Association. Her writing has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, Griffith Review and Pychologies (a UK magazine)

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y separately published work icon Girls at the Piano Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2018 12583406 2018 single work autobiography

'Virginia Lloyd spent much of her childhood and adolescence learning and playing the piano, and thought she would make a career as a pianist. She originally started writing this book to understand the mystery of her very musical and deeply unhappy grandmother, Alice, and how their lives both at and away from the piano intersected and diverged.

'Girls at the Piano also explores the changing relationship between women and the piano over the course of the instrument's 275-year history. Taking us from the salons of 18th century Europe to an amateur jazz workshop in Manhattan in the early 21st, this is a richly layered memoir that traces the experiences of real and fictional women at the piano over the course of the instrument's history. Funny, tender and fascinating, it is an elegant and multilayered meditation on identity, ambition and doubt, and how learning the piano had a profound effect on two women, worlds and generations apart.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2018 longlisted Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature
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