Music SchoolBy Neil van Carpenter.A Review.Music School is a story of adaptation, acceptance and ultimately of the thrilling, inspiration that is music. Smoothly written and easy to read, Music School, is everything a fictional novel should be.Unassuming heroine Jenny Wilson, has a gift, the ability to play a musical instrument. Her overbearing mother sees it, even her father but Jenny is happy to stay at home and play to her idols, Beethoven and Mozart, that is, until she is whisked away to Farley's Music School for Girls where she is offered a place that only the most talented of girls are privileged!Van Carpenter's skill in narration excitingly reveals Jenny's story, which is filled with wonderfully rounded characters, from the stalwart head teacher, Mrs Whitehart to the lovable old rogue of a music teacher, Mr Klein.This is a story filled with humour, mystery and tragedy; the end will leave you spellbound, with a tear in your eye and a heart filled with warmth.Music School is ideal for readers of 11 years and upward; but readers' young and old should enjoy van Carpenter's mastery of description. You grow to love all the characters, but from the first sentence, you identify with Jenny, you feel her frustration, her sadness and happiness.If you are a reader and lover of other fiction that features boarding schools, then you'll love Music School!Christine Lucas.